Building Footprints Across Finland from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Finland, including every feature tagged as a building. The data is compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response using building footprint locations.
• Urban planning analysis leveraging the spatial distribution of residential and public buildings.

Strengths

• Includes a wide variety of building types, from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:38:22.572654

Geography

Finland