[TZGISUG] Village/Wards-Tanzania

[R.A. Ludovic]

Hello Mwansasu,
This will be great.
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R. A. Ludovic
Agricultural Engineering & Land Planning
Faculty of Agriculture, SUA
P.O Box 3003 , Morogoro TANZANIA
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--- On Thu, 6/13/13, smwansasu at ira.udsm.ac.tz <smwansasu at ira.udsm.ac.tz> wrote:

> From: smwansasu at ira.udsm.ac.tz <smwansasu at ira.udsm.ac.tz>
> Subject: Re: [TZGISUG] Village/Wards-Tanzania
> To: "Tanzania GIS Users Group Discussion" <tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz>
> Cc: "tzgisug at mail.habari.co.tz" <tzgisug at mail.habari.co.tz>
> Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013, 9:33 AM
> Dear All
> 
> The issue is, how good is the data?
> 
> There are some strange looking straight lines that I very
> much doubt to be
> actual village boundaries. We did generate GIS layers for
> Geita District
> and the village boundaries are based on maps produced by
> Survey and
> Mapping Division when the villages were surveyed (2002). I
> will compare
> that part and come back with some comments
> 
> Simon Mwansasu
> Institute of Resource Assessment
> University of Dar es Salaam.
> 
> 
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The link below is for the 2002 Census data and
> boundaries, please note
> > that the EA's and Villages link both download the
> Villages data (73Mb
> > zipped).
> >
> >  >>Here is the link where you can get what
> you want
> > http://openmicrodata.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/tanzania-shapefiles-for-eas-villages-districts-and-regions/
> >
> > I have been in contact with the NBS recently and will
> be visiting them
> > in early July, they are currently 'cleaning' the
> database so *the 2012
> > GIS shapefiles have not yet been
> released*.   I will inform the TZGISUG
> > after my visit if I have any news on the public release
> of the 2012 data
> > and boundaries.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
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