OpenStreetMap exports provide data on settlements and residential areas across New Zealand. The dataset includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
- Conducting population analysis based on settlement boundaries and types.
- Providing demographic context for regional planning using residential land-use data.
- Enabling settlement-level targeting for projects or services based on populated place locations.
Strengths
- Includes multiple settlement types (cities, towns, villages, suburbs).
- Covers residential land-use areas in addition to named places.
- Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON).
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-collaborative mapping.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-14 22:27:14.716063.
- Geography
- New Zealand