Mauritania: Settlements

Settlements COD datasets for Guinea endorsed by RO on March 2016; see metadata for description of cleaning and processing performed by ITOS. Capitals (national, regional, prefectures and sub-prefectures)

Settlements and residential areas: named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land (`place=*` and `landuse=residential`). Useful for demographic context, settlement-level targeting, and population analysis. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: place, landuse - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

The villages and towns of Niger with harmonized PCODE of ROWCA and codification of capitals. The data of administrative boundaries comes from IGNN and is updated by OCHA/ROWCA.

The dataset has been developed by merging Admin2 geodata of the nine countries of the Sahel region coming from several sources (SALB, governments, WFP....).

Settlements COD datasets for SEN endorsedby Dakar IMWG on August 2017; see metadata for description of cleaning and processing performed by ITOS. Capitals (national, regional, departemental) The dataset represents the regions capitals of Senegal. This is a zipped file for administrative region capitals. Scale: 1/1,000,000 Last update August 2017

Mauritania administrative level 0-3 edge-matched gazetteer and boundary files. COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats. These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Mauritania - Subnational Population Statistics tables using the ADM0, ADM1, ADM2, and ADM3_PCODE fields. Vetting by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.