Shapefile representing historical boundaries of administrative districts, electoral districts, and local councils in British Togoland (Eastern Ghana) for 1955. GADM country-level administrative shapefiles were conflated with, and where necessary supplemented by, the extracted boundaries of a scanned British Colonial Office map.
Purpose
For displaying historical boundaries with GIS software.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
Publication date.
Time Instant
20161018
Bounding Box
West
-0.469144
East
0.893473
North
11.106102
South
6.335569
Theme Keyword
boundary
boundaries
administrative boundaries
administrative divisions
colony
colonies
colonial boundaries
historical boundaries
public
open access
district
elections
electoral districts
electoral boundaries
councils
local councils
constituency
constituencies
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Theme Keyword
boundaries
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Place Keyword
Togoland
British Togoland
Ghana
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
1955
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
None
Use Restrictions
This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Any non-commercial use is permitted. All uses must credit Princeton University Library and carry this same license.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Unknown
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
Delivery Point
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
City
Princeton
State
NJ
Postal Code
08544
Country
US
Contact Telephone
609-258-1097
Credit
Princeton University Library
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.0.3348
Data Quality Information
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
Text from original Gold Coast Survey Department map: "Apart from the territorial boundary, the boundaries shown on the map are unsurveyed and undefined, and should be regarded as merely diagrammatic."
Lineage
Source
Publication Date
19560101
Title
Togoland under U.K. Trusteeship: administrative districts, electoral districts, and local council areas
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
map
Online Linkage
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1544br72r
Type of Source Media
hardcopy
Contribution
Two maps of Togoland. Issued in: Report by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations on Togoland under United Kingdom administration for the year 1955. Colonial reports, no. 323.
Maps held in Lewis Library at Princeton University; volume held in Firestone Library at Princeton University.
Source
Publication Date
20150801
Title
GHA_adm.zip
Edition
version 2.7
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Online Linkage
www.gadm.org
Type of Source Media
None
Contribution
Global Administrative Areas boundary data for Ghana
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
GT-polygon composed of chains
Point and Vector Object Count
34
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
8.983152841195215e-009
Longitude Resolution
8.983152841195215e-009
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal Degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
D WGS 1984
Ellipsoid Name
WGS 1984
Semi-major Axis
6378137.0
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257223563
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
British_Togoland_boundaries_1955_conflated
Entity Type Definition
Polygons representing administrative divisions.
Entity Type Definition Source
Colonial Office
Attributes
FID
Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
Definition Source
Esri
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
Esri
Admin_Dist
Administrative district.
Definition Source
Gold Coast Survey Dept.
Elect_Dist
Electoral district or constituency.
Definition Source
Gold Coast Survey Dept.
Loc_Councl
Local council area.
Definition Source
Gold Coast Survey Dept.
Distribution Information
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20170220
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
Contact Address
Address
Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
City
Princeton
State or Province
NJ
Postal Code
08544
Country
US
Contact Voice Telephone
609-258-1097
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
