Gibraltar Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas in Gibraltar exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, tagged with `place=*` and `landuse=residential`. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Demographic context analysis based on settlement locations.
• Settlement-level targeting for planning or service delivery based on residential land use.
• Population distribution analysis using named cities, towns, and villages.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple geographic file formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON.
• Covers specific OSM tags (`place=*` and `landuse=residential`) for populated places.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the description.
• 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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:06:55.771814

Geography

Gibraltar