Building Footprints Across Djibouti from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap volunteer mappers have tagged every building feature across Djibouti, from homes to hospitals and schools. Coverage reflects mapper activity, with urban areas likely well-represented and remote areas potentially sparse. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team provides this data under the ODbL-1.0 license for applications like population estimation and damage assessment.

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 and public buildings.

Strengths

• Includes diverse building types such as residential homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with sparse data in remote areas where volunteer mappers have been less active.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping and collaborative contributions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 04:25:04.682842

Geography

Djibouti