[Talk-mw] Malawi Administrative Levels

[Peter Nkwanda]

Maning,

The hierarchy is correct. Probably all the sources will have village
shapefiles as points because village boundaries keep changing as new
villages keep springing up. However, even these data are usually
highly unreliable.

Peter.

On 9/1/14, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to understand Malawi's administrative levels and perhaps we
> should document it here [0].
> Wikipedia does not provide enough details beyond districts [1].
>
> As I understand, the hierarchy is roughly like this:
>
> - national border
> - regions
> - districts
> - traditional authorities
> - GVH
> - village
>
> Please confirm if this is correct.  We don't have good sources of
> boundaries at the moment, but it is good to start documenting this if
> boundary data becomes available.
>
>
>
> [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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