Maps (3 of 3)

ASE Amaro Small Scale Irrigation project & Zonal Boundaries Maps

The final map that I made for AgriService was a visualization of the diversion weirs that ASE was constructing (see this post for more information). Wubishet, while planning the projects had used a large piece of onionskin to trace over top of older basemaps where the catchment areas, diversion weirs, canals and irrigated lands would be. While this was adequate for his planning, the onionskin map is not easily reproducible and was not able to stand alone, without the basemap behind it. My job here would be to reproduce the features on the onionskin and update the look of the map to presentation quality.

Amaro and the South of Ethiopia (2 of 2)

Sunrise over the Gelana Valley

On Wednesday I woke up at 6:30am ready to get on the road and begin another day in the field. I joined Wubishet, Solomon and Dr. Shiffa at the Landcruiser and we set off northwards towards Burji, a neighbouring woreda. Our mandate that morning was to visit the woreda office in Burji so that Solomon and Shiffa could get some information for a proposal they were working on (to expand the Tsestse trap program we had looked at the previous day) and also to visit an irrigation project ASE was establishing in the area.