Panama Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Panama includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas. The dataset 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 comprehensively mapped than remote areas.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements and residential land areas.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on populated place locations.
• Conduct population distribution analysis using the spatial distribution of residential land use.

Strengths

• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.

Limitations

• 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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 22:38:36.746123.

Geography

Panama