Guinean Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas in Guinea exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative mapping project. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Conduct demographic context analysis based on named settlements.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential land areas.
• Analyze population distribution patterns using the categorized place and landuse data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.

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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:09:55.270904; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Guinea