Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Cities (Cameroon - ~ 500m)
Accessibility to major cities dataset is modelled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the 20 largest cities (>55k habitants) in the country. The following cities are included:
City - Population
Douala - 1,906,962
Yaoundé - 1,817,524
Bamenda - 269,530
Bafoussam - 239,287
Garoua - 235,996
Maroua - 201,371
Ngaoundéré - 152,698
Kumba - 144,268
Nkongsamba - 104,050
Buéa - 90,090
Kousséri - 89,123
Bertoua - 88,462
Limbé - 84,223
Foumban - 83,522
Kumbo - 80,212
Édéa - 66,581
Ebolowa - 64,980
Dschang - 63,838
Tiko - 60,796
Kribi - 59,928
This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location).
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2021-10-18
- Purpose
- Value chain infrastructure location GIS-MCDA .
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords ( Theme )
-
- Accessibility
- Transportation
- Infrastructure
- Market demand
- GIS
- MCDA
- Hand-in-Hand
- Keywords ( Place )
-
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
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- Cameroon
- Africa
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 500 m
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Transportation
- Economy
![thumbnail](https://data.apps.fao.org:/map/catalog/components/api/regions/geom.png?geomsrs=EPSG:4326&geom=POLYGON((21.6667 0.1198,21.6667 11.8916,5.1412 11.8916,5.1412 0.1198,21.6667 0.1198)))
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 84 / UTM Zone 32N
- Number of dimensions
- 2
- Dimension name
- Row
- Dimension size
- 1387
- Resolution
- 500 meters
- Dimension name
- Column
- Dimension size
- 1867
- Resolution
- 500 meters
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- Yes
- Distribution format
-
-
TIF
(
GeoTIFF
)
-
TIF
(
GeoTIFF
)
- OnLine resource
-
cmr_access_major_cities
(
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
)
Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Cities (Cameroon - ~ 500m)
- OnLine resource
-
Download major cities accessibility
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Zipped raster TIF file for Cameroon major cities accessibility.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- Produced using OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, rivers; UN Map country border; The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. For the city population - http://www.citypopulation.de/
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 1655aa35-2a76-4c14-9d97-85fe7d5ef36f XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2022-01-04T17:07:29
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
![overview](https://data.apps.fao.org:/map/catalog/srv/api/records/1655aa35-2a76-4c14-9d97-85fe7d5ef36f/attachments/CMR_Accessibility_major_cities.jpg)
Spatial extent
![thumbnail](https://data.apps.fao.org:/map/catalog/components/api/regions/geom.png?geomsrs=EPSG:4326&geom=POLYGON((21.6667 0.1198,21.6667 11.8916,5.1412 11.8916,5.1412 0.1198,21.6667 0.1198)))
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