Liberia Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Liberia, including residential, hospital, school, and religious structures. Completeness varies, with urban areas likely well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment following disasters using building footprint baselines.
• Urban planning analysis leveraging the spatial distribution of structures.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building, from homes to hospitals.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Data is licensed under the open ODbL-1.0 license.

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 17:23:30.024405; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Liberia