Kazakhstan Building Footprints and Attributes from OpenStreetMap

An OpenStreetMap export from 2026-03-03 containing all features in Kazakhstan tagged as buildings. The dataset is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and includes attributes such as name, building type, address, and materials. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, SHP, and KML.

Use Cases

• Urban density analysis based on building footprint locations and types.
• Address validation and geocoding based on the addr:full, addr:housenumber, and addr:street attributes.
• Cultural and linguistic mapping based on building names in Kazakh (name:kk), Russian (name:ru), and English (name:en).
• Infrastructure material assessment based on the building:materials attribute.
• Building height estimation and 3D modeling based on the building:levels attribute.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual building names (name, name:en, name:kk, name:ru) for cultural context.
• Contains detailed address components (addr:full, addr:housenumber, addr:street, addr:city) for location precision.
• Offers structural attributes like building type, levels, and materials for physical analysis.
• Data is available in multiple standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap's crowdsourced nature.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced mapping and export from OpenStreetMap.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 2026-03-03; temporal coverage of underlying features is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:13:10.234284; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kazakhstan