Building Footprints Across Micronesia from OpenStreetMap

Micronesia, Federated States of building footprints exported from OpenStreetMap. It includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response using building footprint locations.
• Urban planning analysis based on the distribution of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building (`building=*`).
• Covers a specific geographic region: Micronesia, Federated States of.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, 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 2026-05-15 10:42:57.456630; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Micronesia, Federated States of