Serbian Populated Places from OpenStreetMap, Including Settlements and Residential Areas

OpenStreetMap data for Serbia includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas. The dataset is an export from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements and residential areas.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects using the `place` and `landuse` tags.
• Conduct population analysis by identifying residential land use patterns.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project with a defined ODbL-1.0 license.
• Explicitly includes features tagged with `place=*` and `landuse=residential` for populated places.

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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 00:03:13.137004

Geography

Serbia