Senegal Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Senegal provide geospatial data on settlements and residential areas. The dataset includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements and residential land areas.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects using the `place=*` and `landuse=residential` tags.
• Analyze population distribution patterns from the spatial data on cities, towns, and villages.

Strengths

• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.

Limitations

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:38:33.673241

Geography

Senegal