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Bridging the Desktop-Mobile Divide: Regional Optimization of Ghana's National Grid for Mobile and Web Applications

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geospatialdigital infrastructure

Record type:

datasetsoftware
Creator:
Tet
Publisher:
Zenodo
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Release Title

Bridging the Desktop-Mobile Divide: Regional Optimization of Ghana's National Grid for Mobile and Web Applications

Tag version

v1.0.0

Release notes

Initial Research Release v1.0.0

This release contains all research materials for the paper:

"Bridging the Desktop-Mobile Divide: Regional Optimization of Ghana's National Grid for Mobile and Web Applications"

Contents:

  • 📄 Complete LaTeX paper source and compiled PDF
  • 📊 Research datasets (490 control points, validation results, parameter analysis)
  • 💻 Illustrative code excerpts demonstrating core algorithms
  • 📋 Documentation and citation files
  • ✅ MIT License

Key Research Findings:

  1. Desktop-Mobile Implementation Discrepancy: Discovery of different false easting values (900,000m in desktop GIS vs 274,291.3m in mobile/web applications)
  2. Coastal-Inland Accuracy Divide: Published Ghana Grid parameters achieve 1.3m RMS accuracy in Western Region but degrade to 61.7m RMS in Upper East
  3. Regional Optimization Success: 70% improvement in Greater Accra (6.9m → 2.1m RMS) with empirically optimized parameters
  4. Dual-App Strategy: Practical framework with separate applications for coastal (published params) and inland (optimized params) regions
  5. Cadastral Workflow Transformation: Mobile verification reduces plan coordinate checking from 2-3 hours to 30 seconds

Repository Structure:

Ghana-National-Grid-Optimization-Coastal-Inland-Discovery/
├── paper/               # Complete LaTeX source and compiled PDF
├── data/                # Research datasets and validation results
├── code/                # Illustrative code excerpts
├── README.md            # Comprehensive documentation
├── CITATION.cff         # Citation metadata
└── LICENSE              # MIT License

Citation

Tetteh-Apotey, I. (2025). Bridging the Desktop-Mobile Divide: Regional Optimization of Ghana's National Grid for Mobile and Web Applications. Zenodo.

Note: A permanent DOI will be assigned by Zenodo upon archiving and will be available in this repository's README.
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Languages

Ga

Licenses

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMIT Licensehttps://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

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