Estonian Settlements and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

Estonian settlements and residential areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land use polygons. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on settlement locations.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for planning or analysis using named places.
• Conduct population analysis using residential land use polygons.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Last updated on 2026-05-15, suggesting recent data.

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.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:47:32.505532

Geography

Estonia