Hong Kong Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for Hong Kong include populated places like cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and isolated dwellings, as well as residential land use areas. The dataset is maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-03 03. It provides attributes such as name, population, and location classification.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, etc.)
• Analyzing residential land use distribution using the 'landuse' attribute
• Geocoding or location search using multilingual name fields ('name', 'name:en', 'name:zh')
• Estimating service demand or infrastructure planning using the 'population' attribute where available

Strengths

• Includes multiple place types: 'city', 'town', 'village', 'hamlet', and 'isolated_dwelling'
• Provides multilingual place names in English ('name:en') and Chinese ('name:zh')
• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project and maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Population data is optional per OpenStreetMap tagging; coverage may be incomplete

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Time Range

null

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:12:42.164779; freshness should be verified

Geography

China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region