[OSGeo Africa] Soils Map for Zambia

[Hanlie Pretorius]

You can also try Googling the Harmonized World Soil Database, which is a
collaboration from a variety of international agencies.

It's in raster format and, as a previous poster mentioned, you need to sort
of manually extract the information you need and convert it to the format
you prefer. This is because of the complexity of soil information.

Hanlie

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:51:47 +0200

> From: Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>
> To: africa at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Soils Map for Zambia
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> There was a global soils database from one of the UN agencies (ISRIC I
> think), consisting of sample points with full profile data that I used a
> few years ago at the CSIR. Bob Scholes and others at the CSIR were
> involved in its development. But it was the most useful soil data source
> I came across at the time.
>
> If you wanted a map you pulled out the variables you were interested in
> at the depth required and interpolated your own map. There's really no
> such thing as 'a soil map' since soil classes are so fuzzily defined and
> fuzzily distributed, as well as varying over the profile.
>
> The definitive global soil project you probably want is SOTER. The ISCW
> would be the best local source for that.
>
> Here's a list I found:
> http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter/research/rsrch_ss_digital.html
>
> On 13/02/2013 12:27, Wes Roberts wrote:
> >
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > I am in need of a soils map of Zambia. I have found a couple of
> > scanned paper maps which have proved difficult to use effectively. If
> > anyone has any suggestions where I can get a vector database of
> > Zambian soils I would greatly appreciate it.
> >
> > Many thanks and kind regards,
> >
> > Wesley
> >
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> >
> > Wesley Roberts PhD
> >
> > GIS and Remote Sensing Professional
> >
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> >
> > Tel:       +27 83 5355 646 (South Africa)
> >
> > Skype: roberts-w
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> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:09:45 -0500
> From: Ned Horning <nedh at lightlink.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] The Society for Conservation GIS
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> Hi Chris,
>
> The SCGIS is effectively an (unofficial) ESRI conservation user group
> but there are a growing number of members using FOSS. It's a great group
> of friendly people and I enjoyed the few conferences I attended over the
> years. Their meetings are usually held to coincide with the ESRI user's
> meeting. SCGIS has been quite good at helping people doing conservation
> work get free copies of ESRI and ENVI software. Their scholar program is
> great. It offers opportunities to go to the annual meetings (SCGIS and
> ESRI) and a couple weeks of workshops.
>
> Discussions about using FOSS are not uncommon at the conference or the
> email list and people are generally very receptive.
>
> Ned
>
> On 02/13/2013 12:57 AM, Chris wrote:
> >      Never heard of these guys before ( the internet is as mysterious as
> the
> >      deep blue sea )
> >
> >      Apparently some SA students will be going to their annual
> conference in
> >      the USA. Anyone know anything about this ?
> >
> >      http://www.scgis.org/Lev3Page.aspx?Page3ID=86
> >
> >      They are a non-profit but use software from a company that may not
> be
> >      named here
> >
> >      Tim
> >
> >      Time for some proselytising ?
> >
> >      ( Depends I suppose on what you can offer in terms of subsidies and
> >      sponsorships ? )
> >
> >
> >      CM
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