soil maps
Please correct me if I am wrong on this one but as far as I am informed, detailed maps of Kenya were always hard to come by since that infamous AirForce coup in 1982 in Nairobi, Kenya, upon which the Government of Kenya reduced the number of detailed maps openly available to the public.
A friend of mine had told me about some plots for sale in Thika (Kenya), so I did a short Google image search on the keyword "Thika" and came across a HUGE collection of amazingly detailed maps for scientific use – scanned & published online by the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission: the "European Digital Archive on Soil Maps of the World (EuDASM) ".
Kenya? Africa? – you name it, they have it. Free of charge! With coordinates for geo-referencing and other useful metadata!
Now I take it that most of you won’t have a proper use for such scientific maps and that Isohyets of median annual rainfall for places like Wajir won’t be of any interest, BUT! I know you’ll love to have a look at maps like this one showing the City of Nairobi:
Or this 1:100.000 map of "Nairobi & Environs":
As for the soil question in the area around Thika, Kenya:
Those maps for Kenya make up for about 1 GB of downloadable JPEG images with an average size of 4 MB each…ENJOY! :-))
20. December, 2005 at 15:57
wow! absolutely amazing! I’ve been searching for such maps and never found them. Asante.
21. December, 2005 at 14:16
[...] Kikuyumoja’s realm shares her wonderful discovery of scientific maps of Kenya….and came across a HUGE collection of amazingly detailed maps for scientific use – scanned & published online by the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission: the “European Digital Archive on Soil Maps of the World (EuDASM) “. Kenya? Africa? – you name it, they have it. Free of charge! With coordinates for geo-referencing and other useful metadata”! I wonder if they have similar maps on other African countries? [...]
21. December, 2005 at 14:22
I love maps and this is a great find – you will now have all of us searching for similiar maps of our respective countries!
21. December, 2005 at 22:31
[...] Just discovered a beautiful resource of maps (mostly environmental info, especially soil) for most of the countries of Africa. (Found via Kikuyumoja’s realm.) [...]
22. December, 2005 at 22:25
Great find. Man, I love maps and these are wonderful.
18. January, 2007 at 16:33
loved the maps, very usefull. can you get more.
18. January, 2007 at 16:35
loved the maps, very useful. can you get more?
3. February, 2009 at 21:08
awesome!