French Polynesia Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across French Polynesia. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and types.
• Damage assessment for natural disasters using building location data.
• Urban planning analysis leveraging the spatial distribution of structures.
• Infrastructure mapping for services like schools and hospitals.

Strengths

• Data includes a wide range of building types, from homes to hospitals and schools.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Last updated on 2026-05-14, suggesting recent maintenance.

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 2026-05-14.

Geography

French Polynesia