Populated Places in Thailand from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for Thailand matching place and residential landuse tags. The dataset includes attributes like name, population, and administrative hierarchy, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-05-05.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling)
• Estimating population distribution using the 'population' attribute where available
• Analyzing residential land use patterns via the 'landuse' attribute
• Creating multilingual maps using the 'name:en' and 'name:th' name attributes

Strengths

• Includes multiple name attributes ('name', 'name:en', 'name:th') for multilingual support
• Covers a range of settlement types from isolated dwellings to cities
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (KML, GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE)

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export from OpenStreetMap based on specific feature tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 12:35:51.439882; freshness should be verified

Geography

Thailand