Poland Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

An OpenStreetMap export for Poland, last updated 2026-03-03, includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use. The dataset is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and includes attributes like name, population, and location. It is available in multiple geospatial file formats including GeoJSON and Shapefile.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling).
• Analyzing residential land use distribution based on the 'landuse' attribute.
• Joining population estimates for Polish settlements based on the 'population' attribute.
• Geocoding and place name translation using the 'name', 'name:en', and 'name:pl' attributes.

Strengths

• Includes multiple settlement types and residential land use from a community-driven source.
• Provides attributes for population, multilingual names (English, Polish), and administrative hierarchy ('is_in').
• Available in four common geospatial formats: GeoJSON, SHP, GeoPackage, and KML.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-03-03).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

OpenStreetMap export based on specific tag filters.

Time Range

Snapshot as of the last update date.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:29:59.499872

Geography

Poland