Africa Data Sampler (ADS): Digital Data Sets for Africa Available from the World Resources Institute (WRI)

The following information was abstracted from a WRI Publications
announcement:

Africa Data Sampler (ADS)

The ADS is an internationally comparable set of digital maps at a scale of
1:1 million for every country in Africa. The ADS is an integration of map
data from several GIS databases. Roads, rivers, settlements,
topography, and other essential base map features were extracted from
the Arc/Info version of the Digital Chart of the World (ESRI, Redlands,
CA). Data representing forests, wetlands, and protected areas from the
Biodiversity Map Library (World Conservation Monitoring Center,
Cambridge, UK), and sub-national boundaries and population estimates
from the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (Santa
Barbara, CA) were integrated with the DCW data sets. Over twenty
layers of data are available for most countries.

The ADS comprises a CD-ROM and User's Guide. The CD-ROM contains
digital maps in PC ARC/INFO format for 53 countries in Robinson
projection, five sample views in ArcView 1 format for each country, and
ARC/INFO Export files for all countries in geographic projection.
The 150-page User's Guide is available in both English and French and
gives detailed information on the ADS data sources, data quality, and
applications.

The Africa Data Sampler is available on CD-ROM usable in UNIX,
MS-DOS, or Macintosh environments.
For more information on WRI publicatons on Africa, please see:
http://www.wri.org/