Populated Places in Svalbard and Jan Mayen from OpenStreetMap
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Description
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands feature populated places exported from OpenStreetMap, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and isolated dwellings. The dataset is maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated in March 2026. It includes attributes such as name, place type, land use, and population.
Use Cases
Mapping settlement distribution based on the 'place' and 'landuse' attributes.
Analyzing population estimates for Arctic communities based on the 'population' field.
Geocoding and location referencing for Svalbard and Jan Mayen using the 'name' and 'is_in' attributes.
Studying multilingual place naming conventions using the 'name:en' and 'name:no' fields.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely used collaborative mapping project.
Includes multiple geographic file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
Attributes are defined by the OpenStreetMap tagging schema, providing a standardized structure.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap contributor activity.
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 10:37:44.441816; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
License is ODbL-1.0 (Open Database License), which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.