Croatia Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Croatia, including residential, hospital, school, and religious structures. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export on HDX.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for natural disasters using building footprint extents.
• Urban planning analysis leveraging the spatial distribution of structures.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building.
• Covers a diverse range of building types, from homes to hospitals.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap project.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 16:04:13.117167; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Croatia