Building Footprints Across Gibraltar from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Gibraltar, including residential, commercial, and institutional structures. The data is contributed by volunteers and maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Estimate population density based on building footprints.
• Assess potential damage from natural disasters based on building locations and types.
• Plan urban infrastructure and services based on the distribution of residential and public buildings.

Strengths

• Includes all OpenStreetMap features tagged as a building, covering a wide range of types.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON).
• Data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:06:55.336167; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gibraltar