Rwanda Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

Rwanda settlements and residential areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land use polygons. 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.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on place tags.
• Analyze population distribution patterns based on residential land use areas.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, and GEOJSON.
• Explicitly includes both populated places (`place=*`) and residential land use (`landuse=residential`).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially incomplete, as noted in the description.
• 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 23:31:50.854018

Geography

Rwanda