[Imports] Myanmar townships

Nicholas Doiron nickd at codeforamerica.org
Sun Nov 15 00:19:09 UTC 2015


I believe that the national borders are more likely to be accurate, but
inside the country there are no existing township boundaries. These would
fill in that gap.

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Ivan Garcia <capiscuas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nick, is the data that you are trying to import much more accurate that
> the boundaries in OSM? Are you familiar with the administrative boundary
> OSM relations?
>
> Do you have any boundary data smaller tan townships so you could create
> and join different admin_level boundaries at once?
>
> Best Regards.
> Ivan. Indonesia.
>
>
>
>> Hi everyone, I have been working with the Asia Foundation and MIMU (a
>> local UN office)
>> on open data for Myanmar. Some state boundaries exist on OSM, but the next
>> level down (townships) is currently unmapped. These admin regions also
>> serve as congressional districts in the lower house of parliament. We've
>> uploaded townships as GeoJSON and used it in a number of
>> applications. Data attributes include the name in Myanmar script
>> (Myanmar3)
>> and the Latin script (Township).
>> https://github.com/MyanmarAPI/dataset/blob/master/geo/lowerhouse.geojson
>> Issues: the township borders do not fit into the current state/region or
>> national borders represented on OpenStreetMap. It doesn't show expanded
>> borders either... there are areas where both countries add and lose
>> territory. During any import I would be careful to map border townships to
>> avoid changing national borders. Tips or feedback on this dataset, please
>> let me know. -- Nick Doiron
>
>
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