American Samoa Populated Places from OpenStreetMap
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Description
OpenStreetMap data provides settlements and residential areas for American Samoa, including named cities, towns, villages, and suburbs. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exported this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-13. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote locations.
Use Cases
Create demographic context maps based on settlement locations.
Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects.
Conduct population distribution analysis based on residential land use data.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
Includes both named places (`place=*`) and residential land areas (`landuse=residential`).
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-13 23:48:45.327017
Geography
American Samoa
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.