OpenStreetMap Building Features for French Southern and Antarctic Territories

OpenStreetMap export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team includes all features tagged as buildings in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories. The dataset, last updated on 2026-03-03, likely contains attributes such as building type, levels, materials, and address components. Features are available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and Shapefile.

Use Cases

• Mapping building density and distribution based on the building tag.
• Analyzing building types and materials based on the building and building:materials attributes.
• Geocoding and address validation based on the addr:full, addr:housenumber, and addr:street fields.
• Assessing infrastructure for specific uses based on the office tag.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a global collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple name variants (name, name:en, name:fr) for internationalization.
• Available in five common geospatial formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML).
• Explicitly licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from OpenStreetMap matching the tag 'building' IS NOT NULL.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:52:12.607398; freshness should be verified.

Geography

French Southern and Antarctic Territories