'The Tanzania Geographic Information Systems Users Group (TZGISUG) is a semi-formal network of GIS practitioners and users who are either based in or are working on GIS issues related to Tanzania. The purpose of the TZGISUG is to provide a "place" where constituents of the network can share knowledge, information, shapefiles, map examples and generally provide support on a peer-to-peer basis on variety of technical issues.
The group maintains a free, email listserver for communication. You may sign-up and find our more information about this list by going here:
By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Wed 25 of Aug., 2010 10:50 CEST
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The 5th ESRI Eastern Africa User Conference returns to Kenya after last year’s event in Addis Ababa and will be held from 13 – 15 October 2010 at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi. The User Conference which brings together ESRI software users from across Eastern Africa to share their experiences and learn more about ESRI’s technology has now been extended to a 3-day event.
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Tue 17 of Aug., 2010 23:09 CEST
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The uDig open source GIS system is now available for download. The new version continues a good tradition of shapefile presentations and editing. In this article we will forward some of their own info about the system.
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Wed 04 of Aug., 2010 09:41 CEST
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The Tanzania GIS User Group website has been updated. We recently updated our server system to Ubuntu server 10.04 and the TikiWiki ? content management system from version 3 to 5.
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Mon 05 of July, 2010 01:00 CEST
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The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global spatial dataset on marine and terrestrial protected areas available. The 2010 version of the data were published earlier this year.
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Thu 17 of June, 2010 22:55 CEST
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You can use Google Earth to digitize roads and more. I have written a small document describing how this can be done.
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By: Howard Frederick
on: Tue 15 of June, 2010 06:16 CEST
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The site www.ifitwasmyhome.com shows the Gulf oil spill with an overlay of the Gulf (BP) oil spill, to give a better impression of the spill's size. I made three images and uploaded to the 'temporary' gallery on this site, showing Zanzibar and the Luangwa Valley in addition to the Arusha example shown in the article opened by pressing "Read more".
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Tue 01 of June, 2010 01:22 CEST
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We moved the server to a new site in May. The upgrade is still pending, but we aim to do that change sometime in June or July. Upgrading is not a thing to take lightly on.
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Thu 17 of Dec., 2009 20:40 CET
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Today I found myself struggling at work. I had to calculate the area of a suggested protected area - land area only. This was in Norway. We have a couple of floating Spatial Analyst licenses at work. Looking for the right tool in ArcGIS toolbox is no fun. If you are not running a cracked version you are often exposed to your inferior license. QGIS saved the day!
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Mon 21 of Sep., 2009 16:18 CEST
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We have made a couple of TIFF hillshade files and made them available for download. The files were generated using 90 m SRTM version 4.1 data. Currently available are Botswana, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Madagascar, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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By: Ragnvald Larsen
on: Sat 05 of Sep., 2009 10:37 CEST
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QGIS has taken a giant leap forward. This time it is particularly the vector editing tools which the QGIS team has made much better. This and many other changes brings QGIS closer to replace the ArcGIS product from Esri in some cases.
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