Bosnia and Herzegovina Populated Places from OpenStreetMap
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Description
OpenStreetMap data for settlements and residential areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina, last updated May 14, 2026. The dataset includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more detailed than remote ones.
Use Cases
Conduct demographic analysis based on settlement locations and types.
Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential land areas.
Create maps visualizing populated places for contextual analysis.
Strengths
Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
Explicitly includes both named places (`place=*`) and residential land areas (`landuse=residential`).
Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 01:13:28.096777.
Geography
Bosnia and Herzegovina
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.