There is another side to this the population counts often depend on
building counts but some towns and villages are growing rapidly. You
can see the difference sometimes going from one zoom level tile to the
next so the ones with buildings in often haven't the newer buildings
mapped but just the old ones are so the population estimates are based
on the old images not the later ones.
Cheerio John
Pierre Béland via talk wrote on 2019-07-06 8:45 PM:
Speaking more generally,
Populatation is growing fast in Africa and many african countries dont
have the resources to organize regular census. See the UN Statistics
Division record of last census by country
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/censusdates.htm
This means that quality vary from one country to the other and that
often we lack good info about distribution of population in the
various countries. The OSM building mapping projects are often used
for population estimates.
Pierre
Le samedi 6 juillet 2019 20 h 08 min 09 s UTC−4, Darafei "Komяpa"
Praliaskouski <m...@komzpa.net> a écrit :
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 4:09 PM Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org
<mailto:j...@liotier.org>> wrote:
On Fri, July 5, 2019 2:40 pm, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>
> One warning: All global population data sets that exist are rough
> estimates with usually significant systematic biases and errors. For
> example in Switzerland the data set you used sees high population
> density in mountain areas with no basis in reality.
Same in rural Senegal. Low-resolution population data I guess.
Can you point to a specific place please?
What would be the population dataset that you would recommend for Senegal?
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