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Description
Building footprints across Barbados exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides this export, which was last updated on May 14, 2026.
Use Cases
Population estimation based on building density and type.
Damage assessment for natural disasters using building location data.
Urban planning analysis based on the spatial distribution of structures.
Infrastructure mapping for schools, hospitals, and places of worship.
Strengths
Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building (`building=*`).
Covers a wide range of building types, from residential to institutional.
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 and collaborative world map.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 01:30:08.248971; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Barbados
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge as completeness varies.