Building Footprints Across Greece from OpenStreetMap

Greece's building footprints exported from OpenStreetMap, including every feature tagged as a building. The data includes residential homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship, contributed by volunteers. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for natural disasters using building footprint data.
• Urban planning and infrastructure development analysis.
• Mapping the distribution of public facilities like hospitals and schools.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building.
• Covers a wide range of building types from homes to hospitals.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Data is provided under the open ODbL-1.0 license.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 19:37:21.878428; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Greece