South Sudan Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across South Sudan, including features tagged as residential, hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically better mapped than remote ones.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for humanitarian response based on building footprint changes.
• Urban planning and infrastructure development based on the spatial distribution of buildings.

Strengths

• Includes every OpenStreetMap feature tagged as a building (`building=*`).
• Covers multiple building types mentioned in the description, from homes to hospitals.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:25:12.776284.

Geography

South Sudan