Every country's boundaries, inside OrionGIS

Almost every question people ask about a place starts with a boundary: population by county, clinics per district, rainfall by ward. Until now OrionAI fetched those boundaries from public services the first time it needed them. That worked, but it meant waiting on someone else's server, and it stopped at whatever level that service published.

OrionGIS now keeps its own copy. Every country's administrative boundaries, from the national outline down to the finest level published, live in OrionGIS's spatial database, ready the moment OrionAI, Map Studio or a statistics table needs them.

#Official boundaries, where they go deeper

geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0) remains the default: open, global and consistent. OrionGIS's catalogue also holds the official UN OCHA Common Operational Datasets for 40 African countries, the same boundaries humanitarian and government teams work with. Where they go further than geoBoundaries, OrionGIS now uses them: Madagascar's 17,465 fokontany, Uganda's 1,520 sub-counties, and the finest units of Sierra Leone, Tunisia and South Africa.

#Every unit knows where it sits

Each county, district and ward now carries its parent. For the official boundaries this comes straight from their codes; for the rest OrionGIS works it out from where each unit lies. Ask for "the wards of Nairobi" or "sub-counties in Moroto" and OrionAI picks exactly those units.

Read the full orionai 2.23.0 release notes.