Building Footprints Across Comoros from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Comoros, including residential, commercial, and institutional structures. The data is sourced from a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers and is maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote ones.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response using building footprint locations.
• Urban planning analysis based on the distribution of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings.

Strengths

• Includes every feature tagged as a building (`building=*`) in OpenStreetMap.
• Covers a variety of building types from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:43:51.854758; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comoros