Building Footprints for Mayotte from OpenStreetMap

Building footprints across the region of Mayotte exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, likely containing residential homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response based on building locations.
• Urban planning analysis based on the spatial distribution of structures.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building, suggesting broad coverage.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 21:08:51.316945; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mayotte