[Talk-mw] Malawi Administrative Levels

[Peter Nkwanda]

Severin,

A number of public institutions do own such layers. Needs checking. I
think our colleagues from Surveys would be best placed to locate such
layers and advise if there are restrictions in usage. The Public Lands
Utilization Study (PLUS) did create layers down to district level but
a number of new districts have come into existence since that study.

Peter.

On 9/1/14, Severin Menard <severin.menard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately, seems the official layer for districts (or at least the one
> I had found two months ago in MASDAP) comes from GAUL that restricts its
> use to non commercial, what does not fit with the ODbL license used by OSM.
> Is there no other layer, owned by a national institution (eg the Surveys
> Department) that could be imported in OSM?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:47 PM, 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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