Hong Kong Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap
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Description
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
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Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-03 10:12:42.164779; freshness should be verified
Geography
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
License is ODbL-1.0 (Open Database License), which may have attribution and share-alike requirements.