Dear All,
The Urban Unit, Lahore is looking for high quality, GIS professionals, including Developers, Web developers, hardware support and digitizers.
If any of you is interested or know someone else who is suitable for the work, please encourage them to e-mail their CVs directly to the Project Director UU (nasir_dsp@yahoo.com) as early as possible.
Note: This information has been shared by Nizam ud Din at our facebook page HERE.
This map has been been prepared by Ihsan Nawaz and Muhammad Nadeem under our supervision. They are Urban Planners from Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) from Google Earth dating October 12, 2009. Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in KML and ESRI Shape file formats.
Sahiwal (Punjabi, Urdu: ساہیوال) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the administrative centre of Sahiwal District and Sahiwal Division.The districts of Okara and Pakpattan are under Sahiwal division. Sahiwal lies approximately 180 km from the major city of Lahore. And it is the biggest city between Lahore and Multan. Sahiwal District is included in the former Multan Division and lies between 30-39 north latitude and 73-06 longitude. The city lies in the densely populated region between the Sutlej and Ravi rivers. Irrigation in the region is provided by the Bari Doab Canal system. The principal crops are wheat, cotton, tobacco, legumes, and oilseeds. Cotton goods and lacquered woodwork are manufactured. About 18 miles Southwest of Sahiwal is Harappa, an ancient city of the world, oldest urban center of Harappan or Indus civilization in South Asia. About 28 miles (45 km) west of Sahiwal, at Kamalia, is the site of a Malli city captured by Alexander the Great in 325 bc. Pop. (1998) city, 207,388. The people of Sahiwal are known as Sahiwalians. This city got his name from the first inhibitors of this city the sahis (a jutt sub-tribe or cast). Sahiwal was named as Montgomery city before 1966. In 1966 a famous legendary politician Mufti Zia-ul-Hasan changed its name to Sahiwal. Read More>>
This map has been been prepared by Muhammad Umair and Hassan Ali. They are Urban Planners from Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) of Google Earth dating August 24, 2006 within a period of two months. Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in KML and ESRI Shape file formats.
Faisalabad (Punjabi, Urdu: فیصل آباد) is a city in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. It is the third largest city in Pakistan after Karachi and Lahore.
It is an important industrial centre west of Lahore. The city-district of Faisalabad is bound on the north by the districts of Gujranwala and Sheikhupura, on the east by Sahiwal, on the south by Toba Tek Singh and on the west by Jhang. It is 1,135 km (705 mi) from Karachi, 128 km (80 mi) from Lahore, 350 km (220 mi) from Islamabad/Rawalpindi, 187 km (116 mi) from Burewala, and 70 km (43 mi) from Jhang. “Source: Wikipedia” Read More>>
This Street level GIS map has been been prepared by Hamid Arshad and Ijaz Iqbal. They are Urban Planners from Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) of Google Earth dating December 25, 2005 within a period of two months. Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in KML and ESRI Shape file formats.
This GIS map has been been prepared by Muhammad Afzal and Muhammad Bilal. They are Urban Planners from Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) of Google Earth dating August 29, 2008 within a period of four weeks. Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in KML and ESRI Shape file formats.
This map has been been prepared by Bilal, Hussain and Tariq. They are Urban Planners from Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) from Google Earth dating November 17, 2009 within a period of 4 weeks . Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in KML and ESRI Shape file formats.
If you want to acquire this data, Use the Request Data Form to share your research and need of this data.
Okara Urdu: ( اوکاڑہ) is the capital city of Okara District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.[1] The city is located south-west to the city of Lahore and is famous for its agriculture-based economy and cotton mills. The nearest major city from Okara is Sahiwal (formerly known as Montgomery).
Okara has the largest storage capacity in Asia and is a fairly large district in Pakistan in terms of population. There are famous Pakistan military dairy farms, especially famous for their cheese situated in Okara. These farms are of the Pre-partition or British Indian Era. Mitchels farms also are located in the nearest town Renala Khurd in the Okara District. Read More>>
This street level GIS map has been been prepared by Nausheen and Munawar. They are Urban Planners from Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) of Google Earth dating July 08, 2009. Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in KML and ESRI Shape file formats.
The SRTM digital elevation data, produced by NASA originally, is a major breakthrough in digital mapping of the world, and provides a major advance in the accessibility of high quality elevation data for large portions of the tropics and other areas of the developing world. Source: (CGIARCSI)
This 90m resolution elevation dataset is available for Pakistan and can be used for regional studies or enhancing visual appearance of map products. Here are some glimpses.
.::Click HERE to request for this data set::.
Multan (Punjabi/Urdu: مُلتان) is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province. Multan District has a population of over 4.5 million— It is situated on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about 562 km (349 mi) from Islamabad,356 km (221 mi) from Lahore. & 966 km (600 mi) from Karachi. Source: Wikipedia Read More>>
This map has been been prepared by Askar Gardezi. He is a business man from Multan and a real enthusiastic mapper.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) of Google Earth dating March 20, 2009. Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in Polish Map format, KML and ESRI Shape file formats.
If you want to acquire this data, Use the Request Data Form to share your research and need of this data.
helum (Urdu,Punjabi: جہلم) is a city on the right bank of the Jhelum River, in the district of the same name in the north of Punjab province,Pakistan. Jhelum is a few miles upstream from the site of the Battle of the Hydaspes between the armies of Alexander the Great and RajaPorus. Jhelum is known for providing a large number of soldiers to the British and later to the Pakistan armed forces due to which it is also known as city of soldiersor land of martyrs and warriors. Read More>>
This map has been been prepared by Abuzar Yousaf and Ahmad Al Rashid. They are Urban Planners from Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Street level mapping has been completed using high resolution images (0.6-1m) of Google Earth dating June 22, 2009. Detailed process is mentioned in the tutorial HERE.
2. Coverage:
Data is available in KML and ESRI Shape file formats.