Populated Places in Indonesia from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for populated places in Indonesia, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and residential land areas. The dataset is an export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-05. Features may include attributes such as name, population, and administrative hierarchy.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet).
• Estimating regional population distribution using the 'population' attribute where available.
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on the 'landuse' attribute.
• Geocoding and place-name translation using multilingual 'name' attributes (e.g., name:en, name:id).

Strengths

• Includes multiple settlement types (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling) and residential land areas.
• Provides potential multilingual place names (name, name:en, name:id) for localization.
• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, which is frequently updated.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Population data is not guaranteed for all features, as it depends on OpenStreetMap contributor input.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 17:07:07.083680; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Indonesia