Macao Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team provide geospatial data for China's Macao Special Administrative Region. The dataset includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use. It was last updated on 2026 03 03.

Use Cases

• Map settlement hierarchy based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling).
• Analyze residential land use distribution based on the 'landuse' attribute.
• Cross-reference place names in multiple languages using the 'name', 'name:en', 'name:zh', and 'name:pt' attributes.
• Estimate settlement sizes using the 'population' attribute where available.

Strengths

• Data includes multilingual place names (English, Chinese, Portuguese) for cross-referencing.
• Features are categorized by settlement type (city, town, village, etc.) and land use (residential).
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

OpenStreetMap export based on specific tag filters.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:30:46.114553; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China, Macao Special Administrative Region