Burundi Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas for Burundi exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land use polygons. It was compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Demographic context mapping based on named settlements and residential areas.
• Settlement-level targeting for aid or development projects based on populated place locations.
• Population distribution analysis based on residential land use polygons.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
• Explicitly includes features tagged with `place=*` and `landuse=residential`.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• OpenStreetMap completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 00:13:31.054199; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Burundi