Angola Populated Places from OpenStreetMap, Including Cities and Residential Areas

OpenStreetMap settlements and residential areas for Angola, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land use polygons. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more complete than remote areas.

Use Cases

• Demographic context mapping based on named settlements and residential areas.
• Settlement-level targeting for aid or development projects based on populated place locations.
• Population distribution analysis based on residential land use polygons.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, and KML.
• Explicitly includes both named places (`place=*`) and residential land use (`landuse=residential`).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-10 00:51:02.632045; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Angola