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A geographical map of the country including national traffic routes, stretches of water, markings of heights, and administrative zones. The map must at least be provided at a scale of 1:250,000 (1 cm = 2.5km). Geographic information is instrumental for many use cases, including the mapping of unemployment statistics or demographics, as well as journey planning.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | No | |
| Publicly available | No | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | No | the data is updated, but not every 5 years. The frequency of updates is not regular. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | DBF, SHP, SHX | the basics formats of data is the ESRI Shapefiles. But onto this types of formats, it is possible to extract the shx, and dbf formats |
| Digital data | Yes | it is possible to obtain a digital copy of the data. For this, you must sign an exclusive license agreement. This means that you are the owner and you are committed not to redistribute |
| Collected by government | Yes | Institut Géographique du Burkina Faso (IGB) is the only one official institute wich mission is to collect and produice those data. there are a third party like OpenStreetMap Burkina Faso, but they don't work for the government: It is an civil society actor. |
| findable_steps | due to my work, I 'am familiar with this kind of data | |
| characteristics | Scale of 1:250.000, National borders, Administrative boundaries (level 2), Coordinates of administrative boundaries | |
| Controlled access | No | |
| Collector name | Institut Géographique du Burkina Faso (IGB) |