Nauru Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Nauru, last updated 2026-05-14. It includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The dataset is provided under the ODbL 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements and residential land.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects using the `place=*` and `landuse=residential` tags.
• Analyze population distribution patterns from the residential area data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple export formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON, and HTML.

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 22:15:26.779357; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nauru