Kiribati Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Kiribati, including residential homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, which was last updated in May 2026. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote locations.

Use Cases

• Estimate population density based on building footprint distribution.
• Assess damage to infrastructure after natural disasters using building location data.
• Plan urban development and service allocation using building type and location information.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building, suggesting broad coverage of mapped structures.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON) for flexibility.
• Last updated on 2026-05-14, indicating recent maintenance.

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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 16:59:34.066117

Geography

Kiribati