[Talk-gh] Import Ghana District Boundaries

[Daniel Paco]

Hi Enock and OSM community Ghana,

In case you are not aware, I would like to share the ECOWREX SDI project, you can find some open information here more related with energy and renewable energy in Ghana and other West African countries. Inside the map viewer you will find the functionalities to visualize, download and share the data.

http://www.ecowrex.org/page/maps

Best regards,
Daniel



From: Enock Seth Nyamador [mailto:kwadzo459 at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 7:41 AM
To: talk-gh at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gh] Import Ghana District Boundaries


Thanks all for the information. Will let you know whatever as soon as possible.

Winfred, looking forward to that paper.

>You won't be surprised to learn that some of the data about Ghana we don't >have access to is given to research institutions outside Ghana.

I understand. ;)

Best,

On 08/14/2017 09:54 AM, yozgoesdigital wrote:

Hi Enock,

I have made an attempt to find similar data some years ago. I stopped when I found a website on open geospatial data for Ghana, which I unfortunately cannot find back anymore. If I remember correctly it was linked to CIRGIS in Legon. At that time they said they were working on collecting those databases and publish them for public use. Anybody knows more about this or did this initiative quietly die?

I also have the contents of a cd-rom which was published with the SWITCH project (http://www.switchurbanwater.eu/index.php) , which contains plenty of GIS sources (including maps of districts and municipal Assemblies), but 1) it license was unclear 2) the cd-rom dates from the somwhere short after 2000 and I have found several things which our outdated.
Just update on Winfreds reaction: Indeed some of this data has been made available to the Switch project and shared between partners. I think this was lead by IWMI, who also have an office in Accra

I think the institutions behind this<http://tcpghana.gov.gh/lupmis/0_rationale.html> website do have the data needed, not sure if they are eager to make it public

Jos

On 14/08/2017 10:49, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
Hello Mappers,

Anyone have idea which authorities are responsible geo data on districts boundaries[1] and who/which to contact for permission and possible import into OpenStreetMap?

I believe this data should be under public domain license but needs to be confirmed.

Any comments and suggestions will be helpful.

Best,

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Ghana

- Enock




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