Papua New Guinea Settlements and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas in Papua New Guinea exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative mapping project. It was last updated on 2026-05- 14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Provide demographic context based on named settlements and residential areas.
• Enable settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on populated place locations.
• Conduct population analysis using the distribution of residential land and place types.

Strengths

• Includes multiple settlement types (cities, towns, villages, suburbs) and residential land.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• 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 22:45:49.651318

Geography

Papua New Guinea