Mexico Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provide a geospatial dataset of populated places in Mexico. It includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use, with attributes like name, population, and location. The data was last updated on 2026-03-03.
Use Cases
Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling).
Estimating regional population totals based on the 'population' attribute for tagged features.
Identifying residential zones for urban planning based on the 'landuse' attribute.
Geocoding and location analysis using the multilingual 'name', 'name:en', and 'name:es' attributes.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative global mapping project.
Includes multiple geospatial file formats (SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
Attributes likely contain multilingual place names (name, name:en, name:es).
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.
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tags.
Time Range
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Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-03 10:37:38.553857; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Mexico
License is ODbL-1.0 (Open Database License), which may have attribution and share-alike requirements.