[TZGISUG] TANZANIA scanned maps and reports- World Soil Survey Archive and Catalogue (WOSSAC)

Ragnvald ragnvald at mindland.com
Tue Feb 4 23:51:34 EAT 2014


 

A good tip Mike! Seems like some of the maps are based on shapefiles -
even the ones from 1990. I am interested in finding shapefiles for roads
from these maps. For example this one: 

http://www.wossac.com/search/wossac_detail.cfm?ID=20354 

Cheers! 

Ragnvald 

> Dear All,
> 
> Just come across a fascinating archive of downloadable maps and reports for Tanzania from the World Soil Survey Archive and Catalogue (WOSSAC [4]) that may be of interest to some.
> 
> TO FIND WHAT IS THERE JUST DO A SEPARATE SEARCH FOR TANZANIA, TANGANYIKA OR MAYBE JUST YOUR AREA OF INTEREST IF YOU ARE LUCKY.
> 
> The search will find Scanned Soil and Land Use maps, reports and surveys for Tanzania with scanning and digital capture of the material, comprised 215 maps and 180 reports. Most of it seems to be pre-2000 including some of the 1996 Huntings Land Cover & Land Use 1:250,000 maps, national atlas sheets etc - scanning is at 400dpi some maps are geo-referencing (1996 Hunting maps) some maps are not.
> 
> A useful overview of the material can be found here: http://www.wossac.com/archive/overview_tanzania.cfm [5]
> 
> I haven't checked yet but some of the maps, but not the reports, may have already appeared on the Eurosoils website which also has a huge scanned archive:
> http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esdb_archive/EuDASM/africa/lists/ctz.htm [6]
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
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