Populated Places and Settlements in Réunion from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas for Réunion, exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, defined by OSM tags for place and landuse. It was contributed by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements and residential areas.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for projects using the categorized place types.
• Analyze population distribution patterns based on residential landuse data.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Explicitly includes features for both named places (`place=*`) and residential land areas (`landuse=residential`).
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-05-14 23:20:43.120601.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped but 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, exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:20:43.120601; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Réunion