Cuban Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

Building footprints across Cuba from OpenStreetMap. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response based on building location and footprint.
• Urban planning and infrastructure analysis based on building distribution.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building.
• Covers multiple building types, from residential to institutional.
• 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:52:48.823863

Geography

Cuba