Logo Lanfrica
  • Home
  • Atlas
  • Insights
  • Docs
  • Sign in

© 2026 Lanfrica. All rights reserved. All copyrights of the resources shown on the Lanfrica website belong to the original copyright holders, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

SOUTHAFRICA_TILE_POPULATION

Domain:

geospatialsocioeconomic

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
Win
Host:avatar

Data for Good Meta. High resolution population estimates for South Africa. Includes total population, men, women, women of reproductive age, elderly, youth, and children subgroups. Creative Commons Attribute International License. 


To facilitate population data retrieval across scale, we segment spatial coverage into equal sized tiles. GPU enabled spatial join via RapidsAI was employed to assign population information with each vector tile. 


Reference: Facebook Connectivity Lab and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2016. High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL). Source imagery for HRSL © 2016 DigitalGlobe. Accessed 7 April 2023.

Visit

figshare.com

Tags

Urban analysis and developmentUrban informaticsGeospatial information systems and geospatial data modellingUrban geographyopen data providedurban population size

Licenses

CC BY 4.0