Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Cities (Guinea - ~ 500 m)

Accessibility to major cities dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the largest cities (>55k habitants) in the country.

Conakry 1985344, Nzérékoré 195027, Kankan 190722, Kindia 138695, Siguiri 127492, Kissidougou 99931, Labé 92654, Kamsar 83428, Mamou 68139, Guéckédou 62372, Faranah 60449, Macenta 58588, Fria 55271, Boké 54898.

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).

Data publication: 2022-04-28

Contact points:

Metadata Contact: FAO-Data

Resource Contact: Dariia Nesterenko

Data lineage:

Produced using

  1. OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, and rivers; https://www.openstreetmap.org/
  2. UN Map country border. https://www.un.org/geospatial/
  3. The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. https://www.hydrosheds.org/
  4. GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer.https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php

Resource constraints:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)

Online resources:

Zipped raster TIF file for Accessibility: Travel time-cost to major cities (Guinea - ~ 500 m)

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Source https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/b70c928c-fc8a-4fed-bb3a-1928f043108c
Last Updated June 3, 2022, 23:19 (CDT)
Created May 20, 2022, 22:49 (CDT)
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