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Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) vs Google Open Buildings (Africa)

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Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)Google Open Buildings (Africa)
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Geographic
Geographic
Country
🇬🇭 Ghana
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / CC-BY-IGO
Free / open
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
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satellite, geospatial, buildings, footprints, hdx
Links
Website Docs
Website Docs
Summary
Official UN OCHA Common Operational Dataset of Ghana's admin boundaries — national, 16 regions (ADM1), 260 districts (ADM2) — as Shapefile/Geodatabase/GeoJSON, CC-BY-IGO licensed. Mirrors the existing Kenya OCHA-COD entry already in the registry.
Machine-learning building footprint dataset first released for Africa and now covering 1.8 billion detections, each with a polygon, confidence score and Plus Code. Africa is served both as the original continent-wide product and as per-country GeoParquet/GeoJSON extracts on HDX. Data downloads as CSV by S2 cell, via gsutil, Google Earth Engine or the web explorer; latest v3 is May 2023.

Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) vs Google Open Buildings (Africa) at a glance

Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) and Google Open Buildings (Africa) are both listed under Geographic in Wycord's Datasets index.

Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) is based in Ghana and Google Open Buildings (Africa) in Pan-African.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 0% uptime for Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) (36 checks) and 100% for Google Open Buildings (Africa) (36 checks).

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Free / CC-BY-IGO; Google Open Buildings (Africa), Free / open.
  • Country: Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Ghana; Google Open Buildings (Africa), Pan-African.
  • Verification: Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Verified; Google Open Buildings (Africa), Unverified.
  • 30-day uptime: Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), 0%; Google Open Buildings (Africa), 100%.

Topics

Only Google Open Buildings (Africa): satellite, geospatial, buildings, footprints, hdx.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) or Google Open Buildings (Africa)?
Google Open Buildings (Africa) leads over the last 30 days: Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) 0%, Google Open Buildings (Africa) 100%.
Do Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) or Google Open Buildings (Africa) need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) and Google Open Buildings (Africa) working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) and Google Open Buildings (Africa) based?
Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) is based in Ghana; Google Open Buildings (Africa) is based in Pan-African.

More comparisons

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