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British Cameroons conflated historical administrative boundaries, 1949
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- Publication Date
- 20180215
- Title
- British Cameroons conflated historical administrative boundaries, 1949
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/downloads/e4e5c652-53f6-4b88-93a3-6635e1ec282d/file/4561c394-ab2d-421b-9477-02fdbc5e67f4
- Abstract
- Shapefile representing historical boundaries of provinces, divisions, and districts in British Cameroons for 1949. GADM country-level administrative shapefiles were conflated with, and where necessary supplemented by, the extracted boundaries of a scanned British Colonial Office map.
- Purpose
- For displaying historical boundaries with GIS software.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- Publication date.
- Time Instant
- 20180215
- Bounding Box
- West
- 8.498749
- East
- 14.680070
- North
- 12.622276
- South
- 3.919943
- Theme Keyword
- boundary
- boundaries
- administrative boundaries
- administrative divisions
- colony
- colonies
- colonial boundaries
- historical boundaries
- public
- open access
- province
- provinces
- district
- districts
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- Cameroons
- British Cameroons
- Cameroon
- Nigeria
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- 1949
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Any non-commercial use is permitted. All uses must credit Princeton University Library and carry this same license.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Unknown
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- Delivery Point
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- City
- Princeton
- State
- NJ
- Postal Code
- 08544
- Country
- US
- Contact Telephone
- 609-258-1097
- Credit
- Princeton University Library
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.0.3348
- Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Source
- Publication Date
- 19500101
- Title
- Cameroons under United Kingdom trusteeship, 1949
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- map
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- London, GB
- Publisher
- His Majesty's Stationery Office
- Online Linkage
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jq085p05h
- Source Scale Denominator
- 2000000
- Type of Source Media
- hardcopy
- Contribution
- Map of British Cameroons. Issued in: Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the administration of the Cameroons under United Kingdom trusteeship for the year 1949. Colonial, no. 262. Map held in Lewis Library at Princeton University; volume held in Firestone Library at Princeton University.
- Source
- Publication Date
- 20150801
- Title
- NGA_adm.zip; CMR_adm.zip
- Edition
- version 2.7
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- www.gadm.org
- Type of Source Media
- None
- Contribution
- Global Administrative Areas boundary data for Nigeria and Cameroon
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- GT-polygon composed of chains
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 29
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 8.983152841195215e-009
- Longitude Resolution
- 8.983152841195215e-009
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal Degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D WGS 1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS 1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.0
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257223563
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- British_Cameroons_boundaries_1949_conflated
- Entity Type Definition
- Polygons representing administrative divisions.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- Colonial Office
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- Province
- Name of Nigerian province to which administrative unit belongs.
- Definition Source
- Colonial Office
- District
- District name.
- -
- Indicates an administrative unit, within Cameroons or Bamenda province, classed as a division rather than a district.
- x
- Indicates a province (Bamenda) with no further subdivisions delineated.
- Definition Source
- Colonial Office
- Division
- Division name.
- -
- Indicates an administrative unit, within Benue, Adamawa, or Borno province, classed as a district rather than a division.
- x
- Indicates a province (Bamenda) with no further subdivisions delineated.
- Definition Source
- Colonial Office
- Distribution Information
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20180215
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- Contact Address
- Address
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- City
- Princeton
- State or Province
- NJ
- Postal Code
- 08544
- Country
- US
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 609-258-1097
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998