Algerian Populated Places from OpenStreetMap, Including Villages and Cities

OpenStreetMap data for Algeria, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, and residential land use. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-05 and is available in multiple geospatial file formats. Features likely contain attributes such as name, population, and administrative hierarchy.

Use Cases

• Mapping population distribution based on the 'place' and 'population' attributes.
• Analyzing multilingual place names for linguistic research based on 'name', 'name:ar', and 'name:ber' fields.
• Identifying residential areas for urban planning based on the 'landuse' attribute.
• Validating or augmenting administrative boundary datasets using the 'is_in' attribute.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a large collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multilingual place names in English, Arabic, and Berber.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats: KML, GEOJSON, SHP, and GEOPACKAGE.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap's crowdsourced nature.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export from the OpenStreetMap database based on specific feature tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 14:53:46.055573; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Algeria