Armenian Settlements and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

Armenia's named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data is compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and was last updated on 2026-05-13. It is useful for providing geographic and demographic context at the settlement level.

Use Cases

• Demographic context analysis based on settlement types and residential land use.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on populated place locations.
• Population distribution analysis using the geographic distribution of named places and residential areas.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple export formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON) for flexibility.
• Explicitly includes both named places (`place=*`) and residential land areas (`landuse=residential`).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, but 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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 19:55:12.298341; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Armenia