Puerto Rico Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap
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8filesSHP
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Description
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
License is ODbL-1.0 (Open Database License), which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.