Saudi Arabia Building Footprints and Attributes from OpenStreetMap

Saudi Arabia Buildings is an OpenStreetMap export from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) containing all features with a 'building' tag. The dataset includes attributes such as building name, type, levels, materials, and address components. It was last updated on 2026 - 03 - 03 and is available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Urban planning and density analysis based on building footprints and levels data.
• Address validation and geocoding systems based on the addr:* attribute fields.
• Infrastructure and material stock assessment based on building:materials tags.
• Cultural and linguistic analysis of place names based on name:ar and name:en fields.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a large collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple specific attributes like building:levels and building:materials.
• Available in five common geospatial formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, 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 and contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced mapping and export from OpenStreetMap.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:30:40.002643; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Saudi Arabia