Populated Places and Residential Areas on Bouvet Island from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Bouvet Island include features tagged as towns, villages, cities, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-05. Features likely contain attributes such as name, population, and administrative hierarchy.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement distribution based on place tags like 'city', 'town', and 'village'.
• Estimating population density based on the population attribute.
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on the landuse attribute.
• Studying multilingual naming conventions based on name attributes in English and Norwegian.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project.
• Includes multiple place types and residential land use classifications.
• Attributes include multilingual name fields (name:en, name:no).
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (KML, GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap, compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tag criteria.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 21:20:36.906328; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bouvet Island.