Building Footprints Across Azerbaijan from OpenStreetMap

Building footprints across Azerbaijan exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship. It is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response using building footprint data.
• Urban planning analysis based on the spatial distribution of residential and institutional buildings.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building, suggesting broad coverage of building types.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 00:06:14.147947; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Azerbaijan