[Talk-gh] Import Ghana District Boundaries

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hello Daniel et all.

Sorry for late reply. Thanks for sharing info on the EOWREX SDI.

Well noted and will get back to you soon.

- Enock

2017-08-29 16:29 GMT+00:00 Daniel Paco <DPaco at ecreee.org>:

> Hi,
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> @Enock, then I think the Energy Ghana Commission should have this datasets
> in shapefile format.
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> You can contact Mr. Alex Essilfie falexge at gmail.com and he could put you
> in contact with the right person.
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> Regards,
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> Daniel
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> *From:* Winfred DOTSE-G [mailto:winfredotse at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, August 28, 2017 5:27 PM
> *To:* Daniel Paco
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-gh] Import Ghana District Boundaries
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> Hello Daniel,
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> Thanks for the link.
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> However, the boundaries on that website are not the ones Enock asked
> about. The meta data specifies the source as diva gis which to the best of
> my knowledge does not have the 216 districts. It should also have a
> creative commons attribution so the data can be loaded onto osm without
> issues.
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> Kind regards
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> Winfred
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> _______________________________________________
> "Knowledge is like a loaf of bread, it doesn't diminish when shared"-
> African proverb
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> On 28 Aug 2017 18:19, "Daniel Paco" <DPaco at ecreee.org> wrote:
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> Hi Enock and OSM community Ghana,
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> 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.
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> http://www.ecowrex.org/page/maps
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> Best regards,
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> Daniel
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> *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
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> Thanks all for the information. Will let you know whatever as soon as
> possible.
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> Winfred, looking forward to that paper.
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> >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.
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> I understand. ;)
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> Best,
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> On 08/14/2017 09:54 AM, yozgoesdigital wrote:
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> Hi Enock,
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> 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?
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> 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
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> 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
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> Jos
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> On 14/08/2017 10:49, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
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> Hello Mappers,
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> 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?
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> I believe this data should be under public domain license but needs to be
> confirmed.
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> Any comments and suggestions will be helpful.
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> Best,
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> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Ghana
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> - Enock
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