Overview

Landing page

  1. Search for a country

  2. Sign in to the platform

  3. Indicates if a country is locked or available. Per default, only Nigeria is publicly accessible

  4. The green checkmarks indicates if this type of data is available for a country

  5. To obtain more data about a country or access the data for a country (if logged in), click on it

  6. Access to the documentation

  7. Contact information

  8. Creation of an account

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When logged in, you have an additional option:

  1. This can be used to obtain parameters for integration with QGIS, ArcMap or other GIS desktop solutions

  2. Logout

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Country information

Click on a country to get more information on it (works when logged out or logged in).

Logged out

  1. A thumbnail map showing where the respective data is available

  2. The data sources and dates of the respective data (in the format yyyy-mm)

  3. A summary of all data sources for a country

  4. Version info for this country (you can click on details to obtain more information on this and previous version, if available)

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Versioning

The geodatabase for a country is versioned and the version history is available here:

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Clickin on ‘Details’ will bring up the version history:

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Logged in

You can access the other pages from here (available only when logged in):

  1. Population export (see Population export)

  2. Geometry export (see Geometry export)

  3. The map page (see Map tools)

These can also be accessed via the corresponding icons in the vertical menu.

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