Building Footprints Across Bermuda from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Bermuda, including residential, hospital, school, and religious structures. The data is compiled by volunteer mappers through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and was last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies, with urban areas likely better mapped than remote regions.

Use Cases

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

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building (`building=*`).
• Covers multiple building types, from homes to hospitals and places of worship.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping and collaborative data collection.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:27:53.398173.

Geography

Bermuda