Puerto Rico Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Puerto Rico include all features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use. The dataset, provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, contains attributes such as name, population, and place classification. It was last updated on 2026-03-03 and is available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, etc.)
• Estimating population distribution using the 'population' attribute where available
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on the 'landuse' attribute
• Geocoding and location analysis using multilingual name tags ('name:en', 'name:es')

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes multilingual place names ('name:en', 'name:es') for localization.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:10:45.584900; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Puerto Rico