El Salvador Populated Places and Settlements from OpenStreetMap

El Salvador settlements and residential areas, including named cities, towns, villages, and suburbs, exported from OpenStreetMap. The data is contributed by volunteers and maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects using residential land areas.
• Conduct population distribution analysis using the categorized place data.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Includes two specific OSM feature types: `place=*` and `landuse=residential`.
• Explicitly sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
• 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, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:52:18.900462; freshness should be verified.

Geography

El Salvador