Guadeloupe Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas in Guadeloupe exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land use polygons. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects.
• Analyze population distribution using residential land use polygons.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Explicitly includes features tagged with `place=*` and `landuse=residential` from OSM.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• OpenStreetMap completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-collaborative mapping

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:25:43.256330

Geography

Guadeloupe