Holy See Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Vatican City State, including residential, hospital, school, and place-of-worship features. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness of the data varies, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response using building footprint locations.
• Urban planning analysis based on the distribution of residential and institutional buildings.

Strengths

• Includes all OpenStreetMap features tagged as a building (`building=*`).
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON).
• Data is licensed under the ODbL-1.0 open license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-collaborated mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:22:43.112720

Geography

Holy See (Vatican City State)