Antarctica Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for populated places and residential land use in Antarctica, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The dataset includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use, with attributes such as name, population, and source. It was last updated on 2026-05-05 and is available in multiple geospatial formats including KML, GEOJSON, SHP, and GEOPACKAGE.

Use Cases

• Mapping human settlements in Antarctica based on place tags like 'city' and 'town'.
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on the 'landuse' attribute.
• Estimating population distribution in Antarctic research stations based on the 'population' field.
• Validating and enriching geographic base maps using the 'source' and 'is_in' attributes.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (KML, GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE) for flexibility.
• Attributes are defined with links to the OpenStreetMap wiki for documentation.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-05-05 12:19:13.098279; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 12:19:13.098279

Geography

Antarctica