Building Footprints Across Denmark from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Denmark, including features tagged as residential homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.

Use Cases

• Estimate population density based on building footprint distribution.
• Assess potential damage from natural disasters using building location data.
• Plan urban infrastructure and services based on building types and locations.

Strengths

• Includes a wide range of building types, from residential to institutional.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON).
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global map.

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 and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:25:09.945623; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Denmark