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South Kivu RGC pre-existing map - has anyone seen this yet?
Posted by aero97 on 17 July 2015 in English.Looking into what geographic data already exists, I came across this South Kivu map by RGC. It is six years old (mise en carte 2009) and offers an overall perspective of the southern region.
RGC (Referentiel Geographique Commun) was created to “avoid dispersion of data, redundancy of actions and incompatibility of sources”. It is administered by two DRC national institutions and many are the members/producers of data (Cluster Logistic, MONUSCO, UNMACC, OSFAC, UNOCHA, UNOPS, ISCO, etc).
The positive side is that the sources are many so perhaps this map could be used as a starting point for mapping the region with more accuracy. The negative side - and major problem - seems to be a lack of validation on the field, which affects its quality.
Has anybody used/seen this map before?
Discussion
Comment from MapMakinMeyers on 17 July 2015 at 16:13
they released data about three years ago: http://www.rgc.cd/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=41&Itemid=183
this is shapefile data. not sure the copyright/ scale/ etc. I reached out to them in the past, but had no luck receiving any follow-up.
cheers
Comment from Ohr on 18 July 2015 at 13:12
I do not know this map but I came across RGC before. Some years ago I worked with some of the data from RGC. Some was very high quality, some note. Some information on this can be found on the wiki page for DRC and the corresponding discussion page.
If you want to get in touch with RGC you could probably contact this user.