Building Footprints Across Tajikistan from OpenStreetMap

Building footprints across Tajikistan exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, ranging from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. It was compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and type.
• Damage assessment for disaster response based on building locations.
• Urban planning and infrastructure development based on building distribution.

Strengths

• Includes a wide variety of building types, from homes to hospitals and schools.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Data is openly licensed under ODbL-1.0.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, 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 09:32:24.463274; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tajikistan