Building Footprints Across Grenada from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Grenada, including every feature tagged as a building. The data includes structures ranging from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for natural disasters based on building location and footprint.
• Urban planning and infrastructure development based on the spatial distribution of structures.

Strengths

• Includes a wide range of building types, from homes to hospitals and schools.
• Covers the entire region of Grenada.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON).

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 19:50:37.377595.

Geography

Grenada