North Macedonia Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across North Macedonia, including features tagged as residential homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The data was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more complete than remote areas.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response based on building locations.
• Urban planning analysis based on the distribution of residential and public buildings.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON).
• Covers a variety of building types as described (residential, hospitals, schools, places of worship).
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative mapping project.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 18:44:08.241510.

Geography

North Macedonia