Digital preservation of the main sources of the AddressForAll-Cameroonian database, maintained by the AddressForAll Institute.
To Cameroon was assigned: in the ISO 3166 context the geocode CM and the number 120; in Wikidata the identifier Q1009; in OpenStreetMap the relation id 192830.
The national territory and its subdivisions represent jurisdictions:
The country is divided into 10 regions (then-provinces), semi-autonomous, that are headed by a governor appointed by the president of the republic. The geocodes of the regions follow the convention registered by ISO 3166-2:CM. In OpenStreetMap it is agreed that the subdivision by regions corresponds to administrative level 4.
The regions are subdivided into 58 departments that are headed by divisional officers (préfets) appointed by the president of the republic.
The departments are subdivided into communes (arrondissements) that are headed by assistant divisional officers (sous-prefets).
The communes are subdivided into districts that are headed by district heads (chefs de district).
The urban cadastres are found in the communes. [CONFIRM?]
The jurisdiction that assigns names to streets and the urban numbering system is the commune. [CONFIRM?]
In this git, only metadata is saved, that is, entity descriptors such as names and geocodes — maps and other data, stored externally because they are very large. The metadata was organized as follows, in the /data folder:
/data: original input data, that is, metadata provided for the system.
jurisdictionLevel*.csv: jurisdictions (at all levels) and their geocodes. The first subdivision is jurisdictionLevel4.csv.donor.csv: data package donors. Metadata of the institutions that provide official data.donatedPack.csv: descriptors of the donated files._packXX folders): hash and other externally stored file descriptors, as well as makefile and other process descriptors to decompress these files and take them to the database (PostregSQL).../data/_out: system-generated results (output), that is, metadata created from the algorithms and statistics applied to the _pack data.