OpenStreetMap data for North Macedonia, last updated 2026-05-14. It contains named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The dataset is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, and GEOJSON.
Use Cases
- Demographic analysis based on settlement locations and types.
- Settlement-level targeting for planning or aid distribution based on populated place data.
- Population analysis using the distribution of residential land areas.
Strengths
- Covers multiple types of populated places including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
- Available in six geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, and JSON.
- Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the source description.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenStreetMap
- Collection Method
- Volunteer-built, collaborative mapping.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-14 18:45:47.475005; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- North Macedonia