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GIS & Database for Risk Mapping - Madagascar

SAHIMS in collaboration with UNDP facilitated GIS training in Madagascar in the first quarter of 2005. Madagascar's National Emergency Council (CNS) prepared various baseline datasets for this event and these datasets can now freely be downloaded from SAHIMS.

Global Map Data
The Global Map Data have 8 thematic layers. They are Boundaries, Transportation, Drainage, Population Centres, Elevation, Vegetation, Land use and Land cover. These layers were produced in either vector or raster data. The layers in vector representation are Boundaries, Transportation, Drainage and Population Centres. The layers in raster representation are Elevation, Vegetation, Land use and Land cover. Vector data and raster data will be downloaded separately. And, raster data can be downloaded separately by every layer.

MapAction Kenya - Tana river delta
Aid that ends up in the wrong place is of no use in relieving human suffering. MapAction’s work in disaster zones multiplies the efficiency of emergency response. They do this by highlighting, on frequently updated situation maps, the places where relief help is most urgently needed. In November 2006, El Nino-driven heavy rains flooded much of eastern Kenya and MapAction responded by providing, among other things, field-based coordination and information management services, including mapping, to humanitarian agencies and NGOs in eastern Kenya.

More information on Kenya maps

Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB)
The Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) dataset is a dataset aiming at improving the availability of information about administrative boundaries down to the second subnational level. The SALB dataset forms part of the UN geographic database and was developed in the context of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG).

The Map Library
The map data is organised on a country-by-country basis. The data for each country is broken down into major administrative divisions which in turn are broken down in minor administrative areas. This means that you can download just the data for the area that you are interested in.

ZambiaInfo Data
ZambiaInfo is a user-friendly tool giving access to key data on the socio-economic development situation in Zambia. Developed with DevInfo, its primary objective is to promote common accessibility of data and knowledge on key development issues, in order to enhance effective planning and monitoring of development activities. The standardised software platform offered by DevInfo allows users to organise and document statistical data on the situation of human development in the country, and visualise this information through a variety of presentation tools, including: tables, graphs and maps.

Censuses

MapAction Kenya - Tana river basin
Aid that ends up in the wrong place is of no use in relieving human suffering. MapAction’s work in disaster zones multiplies the efficiency of emergency response. They do this by highlighting, on frequently updated situation maps, the places where relief help is most urgently needed. In November 2006, El Nino-driven heavy rains flooded much of eastern Kenya and MapAction responded by providing, among other things, field-based coordination and information management services, including mapping, to humanitarian agencies and NGOs in eastern Kenya. Part of the geo-information used for this exercise is the total sub-location population from 1999 Kenya census.

Elevation

Elevation data from USGS GTOPO30 Digital Dataset
GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometre). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. Detailed information on the characteristics of GTOPO30 including the data distribution format, the data sources, production methods, accuracy, and hints for users, is found at the GTOPO30 Readme File http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/README.html

GTOPO30, completed in late 1996, was developed over a three year period through a collaborative effort led by staff at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Centre (EDC). http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

Geographical names

Geonames
The gazetteer will start with Geonames.org features and will also incorporate names from other public sources. The gazetteer and base maps will support one another over time, allowing the gazetteer to grow and improve, based on input from users. A spatial index will be developed for the gazetteer to allow efficient queries of place names, and rapid display of large numbers of points on the map.

Health

HealthMap tracks global diseases

HealthMap was developed by John Brownstein and Clark Freifeld, both of Harvard's Children's Hospital in Boston, MA, USA, after the team saw flaws in current efforts for tracking disease outbreaks. Whereas some sources provide information slowly, only after the data has been verified, others get the word out quickly, but may contain errors. The developers try to have it both ways by "integrat[ing] outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as WHO)."

MapAction Kenya - Tana river
Aid that ends up in the wrong place is of no use in relieving human suffering. MapAction’s work in disaster zones multiplies the efficiency of emergency response. They do this by highlighting, on frequently updated situation maps, the places where relief help is most urgently needed. In November 2006, El Nino-driven heavy rains flooded much of eastern Kenya and MapAction responded by providing, among other things, field-based coordination and information management services, including mapping, to humanitarian agencies and NGOs in eastern Kenya.

Human settlements

Land cover

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Landcover datasets
Landcover datasets from University of Maryland and the World Land Cover dataset from the USGS EROS Data Centres Global Land Characteristics Database.

See:
http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml
http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/glcc.html

Land use

Rectified imagery

Socio-economic

ODAmoz Mozambique
ODAmoz is a new electronic tool that provides information on Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to Mozambique. It was created in response to the Paris Declaration advocating for strengthened coordination and harmonization among donors and alignment with the Government of Mozambique.

The Tanzania Socio-Economic Database (TSED) Data
The National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with 17 ministries, together with government institutions and supported by UNDP, UNICEF and DFID established the Tanzania Socio-Economic Database (TSED) to assist the country in managing socio-economic data and to facilitate use of data for analysis by policy makers and other users to enhance effective planning and monitoring of development activities.

Transport

GIS & Database for Risk Mapping - Madagascar
SAHIMS in collaboration with UNDP facilitated GIS training in Madagascar in the first quarter of 2005. Madagascar's National Emergency Council (CNS) prepared various baseline datasets for this event and these datasets can now freely be downloaded from SAHIMS.

Rivers of Africa
Rivers of Africa is a digital data layer of 1: 5 000 000 shapefile with the rivers of Africa that has been digitized in 1994 for the UNEP/FAO Desertification Assessment and Mapping Project. The dataset consists of the following information: - GIS generated codes (FNODE_, TONODE_, AFRIVLL_); - a code to describe the hydrological rank of the river starting with rank 1 for the most upstream contributories and counting up downstream according to Strahler's stream order method (RNK); - a code to show the hydrological regime (REGIME, 1 = perennial, 2 = intermittent); - a code that combines the two codes in one value (CODE, first digit RNK, second digit REGIME).

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