Code4SAFrankie/know-your-hood

lots of wards without info

petrus-jvrensburg opened this issue · 1 comments

There seems to be a large number of wards with no information. @adieyal do we know why?

The shape files that were uploaded should be the latest data, and it's quite possible that lots of ward numbers have changed. Maybe we could get better results from one of the historical datasets at http://www.demarcation.org.za/ShapeFiles/Shapefiles.html?

There were no wards in those areas in 2006 which is when those shapefiles
are from. Those missing shapes are from historic DMAs (district management
areas). Voting took place at a district/party level rather than a
ward/councillor level. I'm not sure where IEC keeps that data.

Adi

On 17 December 2013 08:46, Petrus Janse van Rensburg <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

There seems to be a large number of wards with no information. @adieyalhttps://github.com/adieyaldo we know why?

The shape files that were uploaded should be the latest data, and it's
quite possible that lots of ward numbers have changed. Maybe we could get
better results from one of the historical datasets at
http://www.demarcation.org.za/ShapeFiles/Shapefiles.html?


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