Marshall Islands Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide settlements and residential areas for the Marshall Islands. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export on HDX, last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Demographic context analysis based on settlement locations and types.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on populated place data.
• Population distribution analysis based on residential landuse areas.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Derived from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used, free, and collaborative global map source.
• Explicitly includes both named places (`place=*`) and residential land areas (`landuse=residential`).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the description.
• 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 and data export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 18:42:34.670791

Geography

Marshall Islands