Jamaican Settlements and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas for Jamaica exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, derived from the `place=*` and `landuse=residential` tags. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided 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 data.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Derived from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, which provides a free global base map.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 16:51:01.541995; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jamaica