GFDRR/CCDR-tools

Auto-fetching of boundaries

matamadio opened this issue 5 months ago · 3 comments

matamadio commented 5 months ago

OCHA offers updated national and sub-national administrative boundaries for most developing countries.
By leveraging the featureServer on https://codgis.itos.uga.edu/arcgis/rest/services/COD_External/ (ArcGIS REST service), we can get the boundaries as features and use them in analysis.

This is done easily in QGIS:

Can also be done programmatically via script.

matamadio commented 5 months ago

A better alternative (whole world, multiple formats) might come from geoboundaries API:

https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/

matamadio commented 5 months ago

Another good alternative are GAUL-derived, but updated boundaries from WB arcgis repo:

https://services.arcgis.com/iQ1dY19aHwbSDYIF/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Bank_Global_Administrative_Divisions_VIEW/FeatureServer

matamadio commented 5 months ago

The auto-fetching approach is now being implemented based on WB GAD boundaries.