[OSGeo Africa] Demarcation Ward Shapefiles

[Walter Smit]

I believe *some* of the gaps were "nature reserves" - I forget what they
were called...UDMA's?

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On Behalf Of Adi Eyal
Sent: 10 December 2013 04:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Demarcation Ward Shapefiles

Thanks Hanlie

I'll mail them.

Adi

On 10 December 2013 12:38, Hanlie Pretorius <hanlie.pretorius at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Adi,
>
> I agree that some wards seem to be missing. One can see that visually 
> and by looking at the list of numbers (WC011 etc.), which has gaps in 
> the series.
>
> I ran the QGIS geometry checker on the file and it found 134 errors, 
> mostly duplicate nodes.
>
> From the types of errors found, I'm guessing there are no polygons in 
> the shapefile that are not displaying so I think you'll have to 
> contact the Demarcation Board and ask them what's going on.
>
> Cheers
> Hanlie
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 09:59:46 +0200
>> From: Adi Eyal <adi at code4sa.org>
>> Subject: [OSGeo Africa] Demarcation Ward Shapefiles
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Has anyone had experience with the Ward shapefiles for 2006? The link 
>> is here:
>> http://www.demarcation.org.za/Webpage%20upload/Shapefiles/Wards%20sha
>> pefiles/Wards%202006.zip
>>
>> They seem to be missing some wards from WC. Am I perhaps opening them 
>> up incorrectly?
>>
>> Adi
>>
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