Guatemala Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas for Guatemala exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Providing demographic context for regional analysis based on settlement locations.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on populated place data.
• Conducting population distribution analysis based on residential land use areas.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
• Includes multiple file formats for flexibility: GEOPACKAGE, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• 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 2026-05-14 15:48:12.958533.

Geography

Guatemala