Building Footprints Across Guadeloupe from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across the Guadeloupe region. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Estimate population density based on building footprint distribution.
• Assess damage from natural disasters based on building locations and types.
• Plan urban infrastructure and services based on building concentration and type.

Strengths

• Covers a wide range of building types, including residential, hospitals, schools, and places of worship.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), permitting sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, but 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 project.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:19:35.050729; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Guadeloupe region