GIS Resources
Information on this page includes situation updates and analysis, information on inter-agency coordination and activities under implementation, the MIMU GIS data repository, tools and methods, innovative approaches, some interesting and useful maps and publications, and also key technical guidelines, standardization, and resources related to the GeoSpatial Technoligies sector.
Current Situation
Updates
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Status_of_villages_with_GPS_coordinates_MIMU862v01_Feb2025_A3.pdf |
pdf |
4.36 MB | 04-Feb-2025 |
Core Documents
ToR
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ToR_GIS Working Group_2022_MMR.pdf |
pdf |
160.08 KB | 23-May-2023 |
ToR_GIS Working Group_2022.pdf |
pdf |
133.76 KB | 15-Dec-2022 |
Maps
Maps and Icons for Presentations and Reports
It shouldn't take years of GIS expertise and hours of tinkering to use just simple yet beautiful maps in your presentations and reports. In this PowerPoint file, you will find the maps of Myanmar at the country, state/region, district, and township levels along with humanitarian icons from OCHA -- all compiled in easy-to-use and extremely customizable formats.
Disclaimer:
In accessing this page, you agree with the MIMU Terms and Conditions of Use in their entirety, including the following:
- MIMU Products are prepared using available information from various sources and are provided “as is”, without guarantee of any kind about the completeness, accuracy, reliability or suitability of the information contained.
- The boundaries and names shown, and the designations used on MIMU products and maps, do not imply any opinion or endorsement of these terms by the United Nations The United Nations encourages authorities to review place names which include terms that may be viewed or perceived as derogatory.
- The MIMU Website includes recently prepared products. Earlier maps and MIMU products are available on request – please contact [email protected]
- MIMU products are prepared as a service to support humanitarian and development activities in Myanmar and are for operational purposes only. MIMU products cannot be used for commercial or advertising purposes.
MIMU Geospatial Data
You can download the geospatial data in ESRI Shape file format for Myanmar, State & Region, District, Township, Village Tract, Village levels and for special regions through http://geonode.themimu.info
The datasets contain administrative boundaries, roads, railway, Town, Village, land use/land cover, etc.
The datasets are developed by WFP, UNODC, UNEP, UN OCHA and MIMU, in intermediate-scale at 1:250,000 (approximately in Quarter Inch scale) in Geographic Coordinate System using WGS 1984 Datum and from other relevent datasets for Myanmar acquired from Digital Chart of the World (DCW), GeoNetwork, etc.
Excel Mapping Tool
This tool uses MIMU Place Codes to enable the preparation of simple "heatmaps" to compare data from Excel spreadsheets across states/regions and townships. It can compare and contrast different indicators from larger, national datasets such as the 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census, and also used with agencies' own information from different areas.
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Excel_Heat_Mapping_MIMU_V206_20200513.zip |
zip |
21.21 MB | 14-May-2020 |
Useful Resources
Place Codes
Baseline Data
Technical Guidance & Reference Documents
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GuideBook_MIMU Villages Improvement Mapping.pdf |
pdf |
1.44 MB | 22-Jul-2024 |
Manual_Basic QGIS Training_v06_Jul2020_MMR.pdf |
pdf |
14.11 MB | 10-Jul-2020 |
Excel_Heat_Mapping_MIMU_V206_20200513.zip |
zip |
21.21 MB | 14-May-2020 |
Manual_Mapping with GoogleEarth_Dec2014_MMR.pdf |
pdf |
2.76 MB | 04-Nov-2016 |
MIMU-GIS-tutorial-join-excel-to-boundaries.zip |
zip |
8.09 MB | 02-Dec-2015 |
Presentation_Using Myanmar Language in GIS Datasets_MIMU.pdf |
pdf |
1.06 MB | 07-Oct-2015 |
Georeferenced and Cropped Historic Topographic Maps of Myanmar
Courtesy of a community creator on Zenodo, a georeferenced (to WGS1984) and cropped set of about 820 historic "63k Maps of Burma" at a scale of 1 inch per mile (1:63,360), half inch (1:126,720), quarter inch (1:253,440) are now available, covering about 75% of the country. These topographic maps, originally produced and published by the Royal Survey of India between 1899 and 1946, have been scanned and shared with the public by John Brown under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence.
Since John Brown’s original scans were in the Everest 1830 projection, these were first converted to the WGS1984 (EPSG4326) standard projection. Next, the cropping process kept only the map area, allowing a seamless mosaic without overlapping map frames when multiple sheets are combined in GIS software. The aim is to make them easier to use and integrate with other GIS data.
Kindly note that this dataset and any work related to it, is not and was not related to MIMU. The link to these already publicly available resources is shared for reference only. MIMU is not responsible for their creation, publication or any past, current or future use.
For more information and to download the maps, please visit the page on Zenodo:
- https://zenodo.org/records/11367062
Georeferenced and cropped "One Inch" (1:63,360) maps of Burma (colonial period) - https://zenodo.org/records/13346102
Georeferenced and cropped "Half Inch" (1:126,720) maps of Burma (colonial period) - https://zenodo.org/records/13341173
Georeferenced and cropped "Quarter Inch" (1:253,440) maps of Burma (colonial period)