Building Footprints Across Dominica from OpenStreetMap

Building footprints across Dominica exported from OpenStreetMap. It includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides this data, last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for natural disasters using building footprint data.
• Urban planning and infrastructure development analysis leveraging building locations.
• Cross-referencing local field knowledge with volunteered geographic information.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building (`building=*`).
• Covers a wide range of building types, from residential to hospitals and schools.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, 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 2026-05-15 09:07:24.309249; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dominica