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

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Google Open Buildings (Africa)Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)

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satellite, geospatial, buildings, footprints, hdx

boundaries, kenya, shapefile, geospatial, admin

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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.

Official Common Operational Dataset administrative boundaries for Kenya, from national down through counties, sub-counties and wards. Provided on HDX as Shapefile and other GIS formats, maintained by OCHA together with the government. Free download and openly licensed.

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