Bahamas Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas from the OpenStreetMap database. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Provide demographic context for regional planning based on settlement locations.
• Enable settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential areas.
• Conduct population analysis using the distribution of named places and residential land.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Explicitly includes features tagged with `place=*` and `landuse=residential` from OpenStreetMap.

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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:07:09.287437; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bahamas