[TZGISUG] Shapefiles from 2012 Population and Housing Census of Tanzania

Wed Aug 28 13:20:42 EAT 2013

Dear Mollel, GIS'ers

The agroecological zone data from ARI is indeed derived from SOTERSAF.
Improved soils data (profiles and MODIS-derived grids) are available from
AfSIS:
http://www.africasoils.net/data/legacyprofile
http://www.isric.org/data/soil-property-maps-africa-1-km

For climate data, there are many products available. I've compiled a list
of these (and other free GIS data) on our website:
http://www.york.ac.uk/environment/research/kite/links/#tab-2

Best wishes
Phil

On 28 August 2013 11:01, Steve Ball <steve.ball at mpingoconservation.org>wrote:

>  When I looked at the TZ agroecological zone maps for south-eastern
> Tanzania I found them to be identical to the SOTERSAF soil maps, just
> reinterpreted as crop recommendations, so suggest you just go get the
> SOTERSAF data (Google for the whole set or get the Tanzania subset from
> ILRI), and use that. I think you can download PDFs of the agroecological
> zone maps from some website (try
> http://www.kilimo.go.tz/agricultural%20maps/Mlingano.htm), and thus
> easily cross-reference to the soil map boundaries. However, I would take
> all results with a large pinch of salt since I think the underlying
> SOTERSAF data is pretty crude and has not been well ground-truthed. I would
> not expect it to be useful at sub-district level.
>
> Steve
> ________________________________________________
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>  On 26/08/2013 20:45, Aloyce Kaliba wrote:
>
>  TZ GIS users, are we allowed to communicate in Swahili. Also, for Lange,
> the shapefiles do not contains data on populations. A checked the dbf files
> for districts. I may be wrong, because my GIS skills are not advanced.
>  The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has shapefiles for TZ
> agroecological zone (by Regions and Districts) developed by people at
> Mlingano Research Institutes. But they are not very good in sharing. May be
> someone in this group can try to contact them.
>
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>    *From:* Gerson mollel <gersonsteve at yahoo.com> <gersonsteve at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Langen R. M. Mallya <cutlan at yahoo.com> <cutlan at yahoo.com>; Tanzania
> GIS Users Group Discussion <tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz><tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 26, 2013 7:47 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [TZGISUG] Shapefiles from 2012 Population and Housing
> Census of Tanzania
>
>  Langen,
> Habari za siku nyingi kidogo? Aisee unaweza kunisaidia kupata
> agrizones/climatic/ shape file map ya mkoa wa Mbeya peke yake? Any of these
> will be helpful
>
> Mollel
>
> AWF
>
>
>    *From:* Langen R. M. Mallya <cutlan at yahoo.com> <cutlan at yahoo.com>
> *To:* "tzgisug at mail.habari.co.tz" <tzgisug at mail.habari.co.tz>
> <tzgisug at mail.habari.co.tz> <tzgisug at mail.habari.co.tz>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 25, 2013 6:28 PM
> *Subject:* [TZGISUG] Shapefiles from 2012 Population and Housing Census
> of Tanzania
>
>
>
> http://www.nbs.go.tz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=383:try&catid=90:taarifa&Itemid=102
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>
>
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