Shapefile representing historical boundaries of provinces and districts in Nyasaland (Malawi) for 1948. GADM country-level administrative shapefiles were conflated with, and where necessary supplemented by, the extracted boundaries of a scanned British Colonial Office map.
Purpose
For displaying historical boundaries with GIS software.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
Publication date.
Time Instant
20160919
Bounding Box
West
32.671524
East
35.911813
North
-9.363796
South
-17.127211
Theme Keyword
boundary
boundaries
administrative boundaries
administrative divisions
colony
colonies
colonial boundaries
historical boundaries
public
open access
district
province
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Theme Keyword
boundaries
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Place Keyword
Nyasaland
Nyasaland Protectorate
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
1948
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
None
Use Restrictions
This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Any non-commercial use is permitted. All uses must credit Princeton University Library and carry this same license.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Unknown
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
Delivery Point
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
City
Princeton
State
NJ
Postal Code
08544
Country
US
Contact Telephone
609-258-1097
Credit
Princeton University Library
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.0.3348
Data Quality Information
Lineage
Source
Publication Date
19480101
Title
Nyasaland Protectorate
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
map
Publication Information
Publication Place
London, GB
Publisher
His Majesty's Stationery Office
Online Linkage
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/nc580q29c
Type of Source Media
hardcopy
Contribution
Map of Nyasaland. Issued in 1948 map supplement to Colonial Office list. Including administrative maps of British colonial possessions in Africa. Published for the British Colonial Office.
Map held in Lewis Library at Princeton University; volume held in Firestone Library at Princeton University.
Source
Publication Date
20150801
Title
MWI_adm.zip
Edition
version 2.7
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Online Linkage
www.gadm.org
Type of Source Media
None
Contribution
Global Administrative Areas boundary data for Malawi
Source
Publication Date
20150624
Title
MWI_wat.zip
Online Linkage
http://www.diva-gis.org
Type of Source Media
None
Contribution
DIVA-GIS inland water data for Malawi, based on the Digital Chart of the World
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
GT-polygon composed of chains
Point and Vector Object Count
14
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
8.983152841195215e-009
Longitude Resolution
8.983152841195215e-009
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal Degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
D WGS 1984
Ellipsoid Name
WGS 1984
Semi-major Axis
6378137.0
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257223563
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
Malawi_boundaries_1948_conflated
Entity Type Definition
Polygons representing administrative divisions.
Entity Type Definition Source
Colonial Office
Attributes
FID
Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
Definition Source
Esri
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
Esri
Province
Province name.
Definition Source
Colonial Office
District
District name.
Definition Source
Colonial Office
Distribution Information
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20170220
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
Contact Address
Address
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
City
Princeton
State or Province
NJ
Postal Code
08544
Country
US
Contact Voice Telephone
609-258-1097
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
