A friend recently sent a link to this Berkeley database of GIS shapefiles for roughly 245 countries, islands, and principal administrative areas. Themes include roads, railways, inland water, elevation, population, and administrative areas. If you’ve ever hunted for hard to find shapefiles, bookmark the site. We have been creating a number of maps like the one below of contracted providers in the Mbarara region and I’m curious to see how useful this new database will be.
Update: The same friend (thanks tqlo!) sent this link to the GPS Visualizer’s GeoCoder. It’s a free service currently run through Yahoo that plots submitted street addresses as coordinates.
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1 Bookmarks about Gis // Aug 10, 2008 at 7:30 pm
[...] - bookmarked by 3 members originally found by madquark on 2008-07-20 GIS database has shapefiles for roads, administrative areas … [...]
2 Maction Komwa // May 19, 2009 at 4:50 am
Hi
I was just browsing your website. Do you know how I can get road layers for Uganda?
Your help is highly appreciated.
Best,
Maction
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