AfricanUrbanNetwork

The repository contains three files corresponding to the African Urban Network: 1 - AfricaNetworkNodes Contains 7361 nodes, with x,y coordinates, and their population. The coordinates and population of cities were obtained from https://africapolis.org/en For nodes that are not cities, named "road", their population is zero and they are used for describing the whole network.

2 - AfricaNetworkEdges Contains information about 9159 edges that connnect the network. Each edge has a starting and ending point (from and to) and an estimate of its length, considering its curvature. Information about the road infrastructure was obtained from https://www.openstreetmap.org/.

3 - Table_summary Contains a detailed description of all variables in both tables.

The repository also contains the code used to process OpenStreetMap data and obtain the complete network.

Citation

Please, if you use this work, cite it as: Prieto-Curiel, R., Schumann, A., Heo, I., Heinrigs, P. Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2022).