Populated Places in Georgia from OpenStreetMap

Georgia settlements and residential areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on settlement locations.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential land areas.
• Conduct population distribution analysis using the categorized place types.

Strengths

• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, and suburbs.
• Includes residential land areas tagged with `landuse=residential`.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:03:54.005174; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Georgia