[OSGeo Africa] Demarcation Ward Shapefiles

[Adi Eyal]

Those areas were indeed DMAs (district management areas). These are
areas that fall outside of municipal boundaries. Voting within those
areas did not take place within wards which explains the lack of
polygons in the shape file. In case anyone is interested, I read about
it here: http://www.cogta.gov.za/subwebsites/publications/election/elec_out.htm

Thanks all for the help
Adi

On 10 December 2013 16:34, Walter Smit <walter.s at sa-solutions.co.za> wrote:
> I believe *some* of the gaps were "nature reserves" - I forget what they
> were called...UDMA's?
>
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>
> 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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Code for South Africa
Promoting informed decision-making

phone: +27 78 014 2469
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web: http://www.code4sa.org
twitter: @soapsudtycoon

For more information on how to participate in the open data community
in South Africa, go to: http://www.code4sa.org/#community