Lebanon Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap, Baseline March 2025

A historical baseline of building footprints across Lebanon, capturing all OpenStreetMap features tagged as buildings that were not modified after March 20, 2025. The data includes structures ranging from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. It was exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on HDX in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Estimate population distribution based on building density and type.
• Assess damage to infrastructure by comparing baseline building footprints with post-event data.
• Plan urban development and service allocation using a map of existing structures.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of critical facilities like hospitals and schools.

Strengths

• Includes a wide variety of building types, from residential to institutional.
• Serves as a defined historical baseline for change detection after March 20, 2025.
• Available in the open GeoJSON format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped while 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, exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Time Range

Baseline snapshot of features not modified after March 20, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 14:23:55.745744; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lebanon