Building Footprints Across South Sudan from OpenStreetMap

South Sudan building footprints tagged from OpenStreetMap, including residential, hospital, school, and place of worship features. The data is sourced from volunteer mappers and is useful for population estimation, damage assessment, and urban planning. It was last updated on 2026-06-22 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Use Cases

• Estimate population distribution based on building density and type.
• Assess infrastructure damage after a disaster based on building footprint changes.
• Plan urban development and service allocation based on building locations and types.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of critical facilities like hospitals and schools.

Strengths

• Covers multiple building types explicitly mentioned: residential, hospitals, schools, and places of worship.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON, HTML.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with urban areas well-represented and remote areas likely sparse.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to volunteer mapper activity.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 19:01:43.440047; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Sudan