Norwegian Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for Norway matching place and landuse tags for populated settlements. The dataset includes attributes such as name, place type, population, and administrative hierarchy. It was exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, etc.)
• Estimating regional population distribution based on the 'population' attribute
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on the 'landuse' attribute
• Joining place names with multilingual variants based on 'name:en' and 'name:no' attributes

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely used collaborative mapping project
• Includes multiple name variants (English, Norwegian, Swedish) for internationalization
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML)

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tags for place and landuse.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:37:53.787824; freshness should be verified

Geography

Norway