Where every number comes from
Four open geographic sources, one classification cascade, and a clearly labelled set of synthetic demonstration records. Nothing on this site is scraped from a customer system.
Geographic Data
The four open sources
Every coordinate in the dataset is enriched from these sources in a fixed priority order, so a location's classification is reproducible.
| Data | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Administrative Boundaries | HDX - OCHA | Regions (Admin 1), Districts (Admin 2), Communes (Admin 3) |
| Population Density | Kontur Population | H3 hexagon-based population estimates |
| Settlement Classification | GHSL SMOD | Urban/Rural settlement model (raster - applied at build time) |
| Built-Up Areas | GHSL BUILT | Built-up surface fraction (raster - applied at build time) |
| Population Grid | WorldPop | 100m resolution population raster (applied at build time) |
Raster layers are reduced to per-location attributes by the build-time Python pipeline, so the site ships only small derived values rather than the source rasters.
Classification Methodology
DEGURBA thresholds in plain terms
Location classification follows the DEGURBA standard (UN Statistical Commission, March 2020). GHSL SMOD is the primary source as it already incorporates cluster analysis.
| Our Term | DEGURBA Term | Density Threshold |
|---|---|---|
| Urban | Urban Centre | ≥1,500 people/km², cluster ≥50,000 |
| Peri-Urban | Towns & Semi-dense Areas (Urban Cluster) | ≥300 people/km², cluster ≥5,000 |
| Rural | Rural Grid Cells | <300 people/km² |
Data priority: 1) GHSL SMOD (primary) → 2) Kontur density (fallback) → 3) WorldPop (last resort). See Methodology for the full cascade.
Demonstration Data
What is synthetic, and what is not
The geographic sources above are real and open. The installation records are not: they are generated, labelled as such everywhere they appear, and carry no real customer information.
Customer Records
Approximately 100 synthetic demonstration records per country (Senegal, Mali, Cambodia) with locally realistic names, locations and usage patterns.
Stove Pricing
Cook Stove Pro at $120 USD and Cook Stove Max at $150 USD. Illustrative figures carried on the synthetic records only.
Everything Computed Live
Population totals, classification splits and regional aggregates are computed in the browser from the loaded dataset. Nothing is pre-baked server-side.
See the classification in action
Open any country map and inspect the reasoning stored against each location.