| VETERINARY OFFICES |
| Data ID |
| File name: | vrec |
| File path: | d:\north_central\Livestock\ |
| File type: | Arcview shapefile |
| Category: | Livestock |
| Description: | Location of Directorate of Veterinary Service offices |
| Status: | Completed |
| Geographical area: | north-central Namibia |
| Keywords: | veterinary services |
| | livestock |
| Date of last update: | 1999/12/01 |
| ID notes: | Veterinary Offices and veterinary research and extension centres (VREC) provide the same service (supply of |
| | drugs, advice, basic health care and vaccinations). VRECs were purpose built by NOLIDEP (Northern Livestock |
| | Development Project) to provide veterinary services to farmers in remote places |
| Location notes: |
| Data quality and organisation |
| Positional Accuracy: | various |
| Vector/Raster: | Vector |
| Data quality notes: | sometimes used nearest village |
| Spatial reference |
| Projection: | Geodetic |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| Spatial reference notes: |
| Fields |
| Field name | Field description | Field source/notes |
| X_COORD | Decimal degrees - longitude |
| Y_COORD | Decimal degrees - latitude |
| TYPE | type of office e.g. veterinary office or vet research and |
| | extension centre |
| NAME | location |
| Source/Distribution |
| Lineage/Source of Data: | Locations obtained using GPS and existing map data in discussion with Directorate of Veterinary Services |
| Author of Data Source: | Northern Namibia Environmental Project |
| Contact: | Natural Resource Information Service |
| Online/Offline Address: | Natural Resource Information System (NRIS), |
| | Ministry of Lands, Resettlement & Rehabilitation, P/Bag 5571, Oshakati |
| | Email: nris@africaonline.com.na |
| Distribution notes: | Unrestricted |
| | 07 December 2000 | Page 1 of 1 |