Kosovo Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Kosovo includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, and residential land use. The dataset, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, contains attributes like place names in multiple languages, population, and administrative hierarchy. It was last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map settlement hierarchy based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling).
• Analyze residential land use distribution using the 'landuse' attribute.
• Geocode locations using multilingual place names from the 'name', 'name:en', 'name:sq', and 'name:sr' attributes.
• Estimate service coverage or demographic studies using the 'population' attribute where available.

Strengths

• Provides multilingual place names (Albanian, Serbian, English) for features.
• Includes a 'population' attribute for some features, enabling basic demographic analysis.
• Data is available in multiple standard geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, 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 or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap's crowdsourced nature.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:52:31.675990; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kosovo