Building Footprints Across Moldova from OpenStreetMap

Moldova building footprints exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, ranging from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

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 and public buildings.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped while 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-collaborated mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 18:16:46.097446; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Moldova