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Africa GeoPortal

A free geospatial platform for Africa, providing open data, mapping tools, and community resources across the continent.

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The Africa GeoPortal is a free geospatial platform dedicated to the African continent, providing open geographic data, mapping and analysis tools, and a community of practice. It brings together authoritative and community datasets covering boundaries, population, environment, and infrastructure for African countries.

Designed to lower barriers to GIS across Africa, it offers free access to data and tools that can be used directly or exported for use elsewhere. It is a useful continental complement to individual national open data portals.

Frequently Asked Questions

A free, continent-focused geospatial platform offering open data, mapping tools, and a GIS community of practice for Africa.

Boundaries, population, environment, and infrastructure datasets for African countries, from authoritative and community sources.

Yes. The platform provides free access to data and tools, with dataset-specific terms.

Details

AgencyAfrica GeoPortal community (Esri-supported)

LevelSupranational

RegionAfrica

CoverageAfrica

LicenseOpen (varies)

Formats

ShapefileGeoJSONGeoTIFFAPI

Update FrequencyContinuous

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