[TZGISUG] Tanzania Polygon

Philipo Herman philipo.h.malley at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 14:24:51 EAT 2014


Dear Mike,

Is there a population map of Tanzania census 1988?

Regards

Philipo


On 4/16/14, Howard L Frederick <simbamangu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike -
>
> 50m isn't too bad - I'd be inclined to use that adjusted districts layer and
> then snap it (suspect a GRASS tool would work?) to the regions; certainly
> would be adequate for national maps.
>
> Which water boundary shapefile do you mean?
> On 16 April, 2014 at 10:34:30, Mike Shand (mike.shand at glasgow.ac.uk) wrote:
>
> Hi Howard,
>
> I found the same problem.
> I did a vector spatial adjustment in ArcGIS and when it fitted well in the
> north it was off in the south by approx 50m and viceverca.
> So clearly there is a problem with the shapefiles and I'm sure it is not
> simply or only a projection issue.
>
> I also have issues with the border interpretation along the coastline and
> lake shores.  The water boundary shapefile is also out of alignment with the
> boundaries.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
> On 16/04/2014 07:44, Howard L Frederick wrote:
> Hi Langen - thanks for that link!
>
> The archive has:
> International boundary (line)
> Districts (poly)
> Regions (poly)
> All are identified as Arc 1960 latlon.
>
> Problem: 'Districts' does not line up with the other two layers (shifted NNW
> by ~ 250m); the other layers line up well with other vector data I have, so
> I suspect there's a misidentification of datum - however, changing it to Arc
> 1950 or WGS 84 doesn't seem to help.
>
> Anyone have ideas on how to fix it?
>
> Cheers - Howard
>
> On 15 April, 2014 at 18:16:10, Langen R. M. Mallya (cutlan at yahoo.com)
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Try http://www.nbs.go.tz/takwimu/references/GIS_Maps.zip
>
>
>
>
> Yours,
> Langen R. M. Mallya,
> Chief Consultant,
> (Geomatician, GIS Specialist, Programmer, Google Earth Trainer),
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> Cutlan Consultant,
> P. O. Box 16967,
> Arusha,
> Tanzania.
>
>
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>
>
> "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence
> of our friends."
> On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:36 PM, Andrew Wallace <andywallace3 at aol.com>
> wrote:
> I am looking for an ESRI shape file of Tanzania's regions to view on QGIS.
> It needs to include the post 2012 regions (Katavi, Simiyu etc)
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>
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Mr. Philipo Herman Malley
Assistant Lecturer
Wildlife management Department
College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka
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Kilimanjaro
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