Populated Places in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands from OpenStreetMap
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Description
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are covered by this dataset of populated places, exported from OpenStreetMap. It includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, or residential land use. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains the data, which was last updated on March 3, 2026.
Use Cases
Mapping settlement distribution based on OpenStreetMap 'place' and 'landuse' tags.
Analyzing population data for populated places where the 'population' attribute is present.
Linking place names to administrative regions using the 'is_in' attribute.
Validating or augmenting base maps for the region using the 'source' attribute.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely used collaborative mapping project.
Includes multiple feature types (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling, residential).
Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML).
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.
Time Range
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Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-03 09:48:33.147995; freshness should be verified.
Geography
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
License is ODbL-1.0 (Open Database License), which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.