Tokelau Populated Places and Settlements from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas for Tokelau exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, contributed by volunteers through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Demographic context analysis based on settlement locations.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects.
• Population distribution analysis based on residential land use.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes both named places (`place=*`) and residential land use (`landuse=residential`).

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, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:18:37.620665

Geography

Tokelau