Populated Places and Settlements in Palau from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Palau includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exports this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more complete than remote areas.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential land areas.
• Analyze population distribution patterns using the `place` and `landuse=residential` tags.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, and JSON.
• Explicitly includes residential land areas (`landuse=residential`) in addition to named places.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap project.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 22:41:25.444425; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Palau