Settlements and residential areas for Seychelles exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Use Cases
- Demographic context mapping based on named settlements and residential areas.
- Settlement-level targeting for aid or services based on populated place locations.
- Population analysis using the spatial distribution of residential land.
Strengths
- Includes multiple place types (cities, towns, villages, suburbs) and residential land.
- Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
- Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenStreetMap
- Collection Method
- Volunteer-collaborative mapping.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-15 09:25:28.080548
- Geography
- Seychelles