Assignment 5
Ana Garcia
1. Documented Killings from March 18, 2011 to January 27, 2013
1. Name of the Data set: Documented Killings from March 18, 2011 to January 27,
2013.
2. Description: it contains an excel document with the numbers of Syrian civilian
casualties since the beginning of the Syrian war until January 27th,, 2013 The
casualties are divided by Admin area – both in Arabic and in English (Admin1,
Admin2 and Admin3) and also by gender (male and female casualties). The data set
contains other details too. The data is collected by latitude and longitude. It contains
both verified and unverified information of casualties.
3. Created By: Humanitarian Tracker Project – Syria.
4. URL: https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com/reports/view/3004 (in
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=15IysHPcziTFeQb8uVo1TF9r
AhwCbFHVYswMoR4c#rows:id=1)
5. Publication Date: February 1st, 2013.
6. Time Period: March 18th, 2011 – January 27th, 2013.
7. Data format: Tabular data Google doc sheet – excel sheet document (needs some
work when downloaded, such as the latitude and longitude numbers and columns which
are not useful for the purpose of the project).
8. Source of Scale: Not documented on the file.
9. Key Attribute Information: Latitude and Longitude; Admin areas 1,2 and 3; civilian
casualties.
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2. Census Population 2004 – Syria
1. Name of the Data set: Population Census Information 2004.
2. Description: it contains census information for the population in Syria in 2004 – last
census registered – for the Admin1 (Governorate), Admin2 (District), Admin3 (Subdistrict) and 4 (City).
3. Created By: Humanitarian Response, Common and Fundamental Operational
Datasets Registry.
4. URL: http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/syrian-arab-republic (In
population Statistics 2004).
5. Publication Date: December 16th, 2011.
6. Time Period: Census population in 2004.
7. Data format: Tabular data Excel sheet document.
8. Source of Scale: Not documented on the file.
9. Key Attribute Information: Administrative name in each category; total population
by each governorate and in each administrative area.
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3. Global Administrative Areas – Syria
1. Name of the Data set: Global Administrative Areas – Governorates in Syria.
2. Description: Shapefile with the administrative boundaries in Syria by Admin0
(country), Admin1 (Governorates) and Admin2 (districts).
3. Created By: Global Administrative Areas (Gadm).
4. URL: http://www.gadm.org/download
5. Publication Date: Unknown.
6. Time Period: January 2012.
7. Data format: Shapefile, but also you can download the same file as an ESRI
geodatabase, RData, and Google Earth kmz format.
8. Source of Scale: Not documented on the file.
9. Key Attribute Information: Administrative Boundaries in Syria for Admin0,
Admin1 and Admin2.
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4. Syria Country based general information (roads, population, railroads, administrative
boundaries)
1. Name of the Data set: Syria country wide shapefiles.
2. Description: Shape files with administrative boundaries, population, railroads, and
elevation (between others). More specifically:
a. Syria global file: “natural” points; “administrative boundaries (including
international boundaries);” “locations and addresses”; “coastline and water
bodies (polylines)”; “water”.
b. The website contains the same information about the following cities: Dera’a,
Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Homs, and Idlib. These are relevant cities in Syria
when talking about the civil war in Syria.
3. Created By: Map Cruzin (free access website).
4. URL: http://www.mapcruzin.com/free-syria-country-city-place-gis-shapefiles.htm
5. Publication Date: Unknown – the last time the files appeared to have been modified
its November 2011.
6. Time Period: January 2012.
7. Data format: Shapefile, but also dbf (database file).
8. Source of Scale: Not documented on the file.
9. Key Attribute Information: Coastline, water bodies, and elevation in Syria. Also,
the fact that I can look at specific geographic information for cities as relevant as
Damascus, Dera’a, Hama and Homs will give me the chance to contemplate the option to
look into detail to those.
Additional note about the accuracy of the data on the website: “The geodata, maps, GIS
shapefiles and other resources found on the MapCruzin.com website may come from a variety
of government, non-profit and private sources and it does not confirm any accuracy on its
sources.”
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5. Ethnic power relations – ethnic map of Syria
1. Name of the Data set: Syria ethnic Map – 2009 description
2. Description: Shape files with maps that conform the ethnic distribution in Syria. The
most updated map is from 2009.
3. Created By: International Conflict Research
4. URL: http://growup.ethz.ch/pfe/
5. Publication Date: 2010. It is an assumption that I made, because the map represents
information related to what is the ethnic distribution in that year.
6. Time Period: Year 2009
7. Data format: Shapefile- Note: I have not found the way to download specifically the
file I want. For the purpose of this assignment, I have made a screen shot to show the
type of map should be.
8. Source of Scale: Unknown
9. Key Attribute Information: The ethnic distribution in Syria globally in the country.
It is useful enough, although I would like to find a more detailed map of the ethnic
distribution in Syria in Admin1 or Admin2 levels. (Maybe I could work with something
digitalized?)