[TZGISUG] Fwd: Tanzania Cartography Rules / Guideline?
Laurel Werner
kilitechfoundation at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 15:41:50 EAT 2016
Greetings, all, I am getting in on the conversation late but wanted to introduce myself. My name is Laurel Werner and I run a USA based NGO called KiliTech (link below) and we bring technology, education, and healthcare to rural Tanzania. We are working in the Kilimanjaro region and I am striving to map the region focusing on the areas where we work. Currently, we are in the East Kahe Ward and will be here for about one year. My undergrad degree is in GIS and I worked for several years as a cartographer using ArcInfo. I am an avid map supporter and believe in the need for quality mapping and related data for Tanzania!
My partners and I are currently seeking someone to help us with GIS mapping so if anyone is in the Moshi area with GIS experience please let me know!
If KiliTech can be of any assistance with the overall Tanzania mapping project, I am happy to get involved. My partner, Thadei Msumanje, runs Tanzania Rural Empowerment Organization, a Tanzania based NGO. We are certainly willing to facilitate better mapping data for Tanzania! If anyone lives in the Moshi area please reach out so we can meet and collaborate.
Best,
Laurel Werner
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Laurel Werner
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> On Aug 9, 2016, at 5:34 AM, Elisante Japhet via TZGISUG <tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:
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> Hi guys,
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> Alphonce, thank you for that and I'm looking forward to it.
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> Also, the thoughts you share guys are great and I think we will need something like this, Humanitarian Data Exchange <https://data.humdata.org/> in which we can use the same concept and include all latest data & GeoDatabase available for Tanzania.
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> Looking forward to hear more responses / thoughts from others members regarding this.
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> Regards,
> Elisante.
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> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Simon Mwansasu <smwansasu at hotmail.com <mailto:smwansasu at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is the only answer to such pertinent worries.
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> The question is how do we go about it? Who takes the lead?
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> Given their national mandate in mapping issue, the Survey and Mapping Division (SMD) seems a natural entity to lead the way. Are they up to the challenge?
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> Who can organize a national conference to to brainstorm on such important issue? Only serious entities (public or private) should attend the meeting though the invitation must be extended to all! No attendance/sitting or transport allowance to such a meeting. Interested entities must meet their own costs for attending such an important meeting.
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> Just thinking aloud!
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> Simon L.A. Mwansasu (PhD)
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> From: TZGISUG <tzgisug-bounces at lists.habari.co.tz <mailto:tzgisug-bounces at lists.habari.co.tz>> on behalf of Aloyce Mpinge via TZGISUG <tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz <mailto:tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz>>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 9:13 AM
> To: Elisante Japhet; Tanzania GIS Users Group Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TZGISUG] Fwd: Tanzania Cartography Rules / Guideline?
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> That is very good inquiry. Let me look for some one from the Ministry of Lands, or if you have one there, you can ask because here in Tz have to adhere to some of rules from the ministry of Lands, Division of Mapping and Surveys . Is crucial that "cartographic fidelity" is adhered for a map maker in order to establish a relationship ( common ground of understanding" between a map maker and a map user, maps convey messages that words cannot describle, a map is a static database that has numerous geographic phenonema carrying a message to a user, if miscommunicated and if wrongly interpreted, the aftermath of it is adverse.
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> As cartographers, we real need to seek standards, cartographic principles that will guide to a proper production of maps.
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> For instance there is a shift in distance if one uses WGS 84 and Arc1960, so if we dont agree on projection or reference surfaces, results will also contain geographical error if not a mistake.
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> As GIS users I think we need to build from the bottom rather than using GIS software as it is, one step after the other. I think we can go further, we can have data that is our own data from collection, recollection, validation and storage and lastly develop SDI country wide. Nadhani hii ni Fursa kwa watumiaji wa technolojia hii!!
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> From: Elisante Japhet via TZGISUG <tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz <mailto:tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz>>
> To: tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz <mailto:tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 11:40 AM
> Subject: [TZGISUG] Fwd: Tanzania Cartography Rules / Guideline?
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> Hi TZGISUG Team,
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> I've been looking for Mapping rules / guidelines that could be used with Cartographers while working on Tanzania maps. So I'm wondering if you might have come across rules used by TANAPA, TAWIRI, or by Government and Non - Government Organization that are allowed to share?
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> ps: The guidelines can be in such a way that, Maps created can also be accepted in various institutes and organization.
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> Thank you,
> Elisante.
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