Shapefile representing historical boundaries of provinces, divisions, and districts in British Cameroons for 1949. Boundaries were extracted from a scanned British Colonial Office map.
Purpose
For displaying historical boundaries with GIS software.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
Publication date.
Time Instant
20180215
Bounding Box
West
8.436508
East
14.663601
North
12.669343
South
3.909098
Theme Keyword
boundary
boundaries
administrative boundaries
administrative divisions
colony
colonies
colonial boundaries
historical boundaries
public
open access
province
provinces
district
districts
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Theme Keyword
boundaries
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Place Keyword
Cameroons
British Cameroons
Cameroon
Nigeria
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
1949
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
Lineage
Source
Publication Date
19500101
Title
Cameroons under United Kingdom Trusteeship, 1949
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
map
Publication Information
Publication Place
London, GB
Publisher
His Majesty's Stationery Office
Online Linkage
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jq085p05h
Source Scale Denominator
2000000
Type of Source Media
hardcopy
Contribution
Map of British Cameroons. Issued in: Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the administration of the Cameroons under United Kingdom trusteeship for the year 1949. Colonial, no. 262.
Map held in Lewis Library at Princeton University; volume held in Firestone Library at Princeton University.
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
29
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Planar
Map Projection
Map Projection Name
World Polyconic
Polyconic
Longitude of Central Meridian
11.5
Latitude of Projection Origin
0.0
False Easting
0.0
False Northing
0.0
Planar Coordinate Information
Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
coordinate pair
Coordinate Representation
Abscissa Resolution
0.000000004449263180106301
Ordinate Resolution
0.000000004449263180106301
Planar Distance Units
meter
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_Cameroons_boundaries_1949_extracted
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
Province
Name of Nigerian province to which administrative unit belongs.
Definition Source
Colonial Office
District
District name.
-
Indicates an administrative unit, within Cameroons or Bamenda province, classed as a division rather than a district.
x
Indicates a province (Bamenda) with no further subdivisions delineated.
Definition Source
Colonial Office
Division
Division name.
-
Indicates an administrative unit, within Benue, Adamawa, or Bornu province, classed as a district rather than a division.
x
Indicates a province (Bamenda) with no further subdivisions delineated.
Definition Source
Colonial Office
Distribution Information
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20180215
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
