{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,12]],"date-time":"2025-10-12T03:37:11Z","timestamp":1760240231110,"version":"build-2065373602"},"reference-count":5,"publisher":"MDPI AG","issue":"2","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,10]],"date-time":"2019-04-10T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1554854400000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Data"],"abstract":"<jats:p>In the context of a public mental health study conducted in Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco, we encountered a serious challenge regarding the availability of consistent and accurate administrative division data. Hence, using the Google Maps API in QGIS, we proceeded to geocode the Grand Casablanca districts and overlay them on the updated Morocco\u2019s administrative regions shapefile. The district data were summarized and gathered creating an administrative division repository from the district level up. Thus, the main contribution of the current paper, is a table containing (District, District_CP, Commune, Type_com, Prefecture\/Province (PR), PR_CP, Region) and the second output is the shapefile that generated the table. The GIS data and the map are useful to other researchers in Morocco and elsewhere who have had no opportunity to access administrative division data of the location. As for foreign researchers from other developing countries the paper\u2019s approach can be applied in their studies to create other lacking geographic repositories.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/data4020051","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,10]],"date-time":"2019-04-10T11:25:08Z","timestamp":1554895508000},"page":"51","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Administrative Division Data of Grand Casablanca: Creation of a District Repository Using QGIS"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Khaoula","family":"Ajbal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Medical Informatics Laboratory (LIM), Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Casablanca, Hassan II University, Casablanca 20000, Morocco"},{"name":"Neurosciences and Mental Health Laboratory, Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Casablanca, Hassan II University, Casablanca 20000, Morocco"}]},{"given":"Samy","family":"Housbane","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medical Informatics Laboratory (LIM), Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Casablanca, Hassan II University, Casablanca 20000, Morocco"},{"name":"Neurosciences and Mental Health Laboratory, Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Casablanca, Hassan II University, Casablanca 20000, Morocco"}]},{"given":"Bennani Othmani","family":"Mohammed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medical Informatics Laboratory (LIM), Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Casablanca, Hassan II University, Casablanca 20000, Morocco"},{"name":"Neurosciences and Mental Health Laboratory, Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Casablanca, Hassan II University, Casablanca 20000, Morocco"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2018, December 30). OpenAFRICA. Available online: https:\/\/africaopendata.org\/."},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"(2019, April 02). Bulletins Officiels 2009 BO_5744, Available online: http:\/\/www.sgg.gov.ma\/Legislation\/BulletinsOfficiels.aspx."},{"key":"ref_3","unstructured":"(2018, December 30). La Wilaya de la r\u00e9gion de Casablanca\u2014Settat, Royaume du Maroc. Available online: http:\/\/casablanca.ma\/."},{"key":"ref_4","unstructured":"(2018, August 10). Grand Casablanca. Available online: https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Casablanca."},{"key":"ref_5","unstructured":"(2019, January 17). Direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des collectivit\u00e9s locales, Monographie de la r\u00e9gion Grand Casablanca, 2015. Available online: http:\/\/casablanca.ma\/Page_Centrale.aspx?Id_Page=5290#."}],"container-title":["Data"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2306-5729\/4\/2\/51\/pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,11]],"date-time":"2025-10-11T12:44:27Z","timestamp":1760186667000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2306-5729\/4\/2\/51"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,10]]},"references-count":5,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,6]]}},"alternative-id":["data4020051"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/data4020051","relation":{},"ISSN":["2306-5729"],"issn-type":[{"type":"electronic","value":"2306-5729"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,10]]}}}