Building Footprints Across Mozambique from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap building footprints across Mozambique include every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The data is a free, collaborative export built by volunteers and maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas usually well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.

Use Cases

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

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building (`building=*`).
• Covers a wide range of building types, from homes to hospitals and schools.
• 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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 20:31:30.882443

Geography

Mozambique