Populated Places in French Southern and Antarctic Territories from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for populated places in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-03-03. The dataset includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use. It likely contains attributes such as name, population, and place type.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement distribution based on place type tags (e.g., city, village, hamlet).
• Analyzing population data for inhabited locations in the territories.
• Studying residential land use patterns in isolated regions.
• Joining location names with multilingual attributes (name:en, name:fr).

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes multiple geographic file formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML).
• Released 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.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update is dated 2026-03-03.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tags for place and landuse.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 2026-03-03.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:10:40.474135

Geography

French Southern and Antarctic Territories