Mexico Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

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