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Dear All,<br>
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Please note that the majority of locations in the Geonames dataset
is only accurate to 2-3 decimal places (approx 2 km) and rounded to
quarter, third, half two-thirds or three- quarter of a degree. If
you zoom in to any area with many point locations you will see the
locations appear in a linear or grid type pattern as rounded
values. The dataset if probably OK to use at small scales for
cities etc but use it with caution at larger scales or precise
locations such as hotels, roads, dams etc.<br>
E.G. around Zanzibar<br>
<img src="cid:part1.08070503.02070906@glasgow.ac.uk" alt=""><br>
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Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
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<div>Dear Ruth,<br>
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You could have a look at Geonames, it has a quite good gazetteer
of place names worldwide, including Tanzania. Under "Free
gazetteer data" look for TZ.zip and download it. Inside you'll
find ASCII file with spatial information given in lat/long
coordinates. Feature codes are listed at <a
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href="http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html">http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html</a>
- you should be able to find district capitals there...<br>
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Pekka Hurskainen<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM,
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all:
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<div>I was wondering if anyone could point me to
data on the geo-locations of Tanzania's district
capitals, ideally corresponding to the districts
mapped in the 2012 Census.</div>
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<div>Thank you!</div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
<div>Ruth Carlitz<span class=""><font
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Ph.D. Candidate</div>
<div style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Department
of Political Science</div>
<div style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">University
of California, Los Angeles</div>
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