Building Footprints Across Georgia from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Georgia, including every feature tagged as a building. The data likely contains features such as residential homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship. It is exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

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

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building, suggesting broad coverage of building types.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON) for flexibility.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.

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 and export via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:48:05.449439; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Georgia