Data on administrative units or areas defined for the purpose of administration by a (local) government.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| In an open format | DBF, SHP, SHX | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| findable | 1 | It is hard to find the specific website's section where the data is. |
| findable_steps | Once in IBGE's website you go to downloads section, click in "Geociências" (Geoscience), choose the files: organização_do_territorio (territory organization)> malhas_territoriais (territory modal)> malhas_municipais (municipal modal) > município_2015 > UFs and choose RJ You need a lot of clicks to get the file | |
| licence_url | https://www.ibge.gov.br/home/disseminacao/eventos/missao | I didn't find something as objective as a "terms and conditions" or a real license, but I found at this link a list of fundamental principles for official statistics with some guidelines for publication and dissemination. It contains the idea of data provided for public domain. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | You should have some knowledge on geographic datasets in order to work with this (including knowledge in geographic softwares). |
| collector_name | Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - IBGE | Portuguese for Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute |
| characteristics | Boundary level 1, Boundary level 2, Coordinates (latitude, longitude), Name of poligone (department, region, city), Borders of poligone | |
| location | https://downloads.ibge.gov.br/downloads_geociencias.htm - Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - IBGE), href="https://portalgeo.pcrj.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/c457e8eef54f44e2acf18c148cf1731c_14" https://portalgeo.pcrj.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/c457">rel="nofollow">https://portalgeo.pcrj.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/c457 - Pereira Passos Institute | Both of them provide Rio de Janeiro administrative boundaries. Although, the IBGE shapefile is more granular, so we will use it as reference for this evaluation. |
Reviewed. Everything ok.