[OSGeo Africa] African Data

[christopher legg]

Hi Sarel,

I am working on a cassava disease project in "great Lakes" countries of
East Africa, including Tanzania and Uganda. I agree with Craigs
recommendations for data sources for admin boundaries.

There is a problem with Tanzania at the moment. Three new districts have
been created by sub-dividing older districts.

Tarime district now Tarime and Rorya districts
Bukoba now Bukoba and Misenyi
Biharamulo now Biharamulo and Chato

I have not yet been able to get a digital version of the new boundaries.
I can send you a ward map of Tanzania (more detailed than districts) if
you need it (large file, would require ftp site), but this does not have
new districts.

Best regards,

Chris


On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 11:05 +0200, Sarel Coetzer wrote:
> Craig
> 
> Thanks for the reply. FAO is a great site and have sourced data from
> there already. I like to source data from multiple sources to verify
> boundary layers and have registered at SALB. Thanks for the link.
> 
> I am also requesting datasets directly from the countries "mapping
> authorities" now. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sarel Coetzer | GIS Developer
> 
> Malaria Research Programme
> Medical Research Council
> Tel : 031 203 47 94
> http://www.malaria.org.za/
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> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Craig von Hagen
> <craigvonhagen at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>         Try this:
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>         http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
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>         and search for ‘GAUL’ in the free text.
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>         Although the only way you will get the ‘correct’ names and
>         boundaries is from the mapping authority in each country. This
>         is actually what SALB tries to do. See: http://www.unsalb.org/
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>         I hope this help,
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>         Craig
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>         [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sarel
>         Coetzer
>         Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:05
>         To: Africa local chapter discussions
>         Subject: [OSGeo Africa] African Data
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>         Hi All
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>         I am trying to source datasets for Uganda, Tanzania and
>         Eritrea.
>         
>         I have sourced data from Servir.Net and FAO and found huge
>         variations in admin boundary layers, also a wrong attributes
>         alocated to smaller admin layers.
>         
>         I am interest in 3 x hierarchical Admin layers per country for
>         Malaria and Eye-care projects.
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>         Your help will be greatly appreciated.
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>         Sarel Coetzer | GIS Developer
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>         Malaria Research Programme
>         Medical Research Council
>         Tel : 031 203 47 94
>         http://www.malaria.org.za/
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