British Indian Ocean Territory Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for populated places in the British Indian Ocean Territory, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-05-05. The dataset includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use. Attributes likely contain names, population counts, and classification tags.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement distribution based on OpenStreetMap 'place' and 'landuse' tags.
• Estimating population distribution using the 'population' attribute where available.
• Analyzing place name localization using the 'name' and 'name:en' attributes.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and openly licensed global mapping project.
• Features are available in multiple geospatial file formats including KML, GEOJSON, SHP, and GEOPACKAGE.
• Dataset is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), permitting sharing and adaptation.

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.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-05-05).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 12:20:43.185084

Geography

British Indian Ocean Territory