Niue Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports contain building footprints across Niue. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, from residential homes through hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides this export, last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response using building footprint data.
• Urban planning analysis based on the spatial distribution of structures.
• Infrastructure inventory and mapping of facilities like hospitals and schools.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building, suggesting broad coverage of mapped structures.
• Covers multiple building types, from residential to institutional, as mentioned in the description.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
• 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 data exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 21:29:19.441751; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Niue