Czechia Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

Building footprints across Czechia exported 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 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response using building footprint data.
• Urban planning analysis based on the spatial distribution of structures.
• Infrastructure mapping by identifying specific building types like hospitals and schools.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building.
• Covers a wide variety of building types, from homes to hospitals.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE and SHP.
• Data is provided under the open ODbL-1.0 license.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Czechia