Turkey Populated Places: Multilingual Settlement Data from OSM
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8filesSHP
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Description
This geospatial dataset provides point and polygon data for populated settlements across Turkey, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. It aggregates features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and residential land use areas from OpenStreetMap.
Use Cases
Developing gazetteers for Turkey using 'name:tr' and 'name:en' for localized search
Analyzing settlement density by filtering 'place' tags like 'village' or 'hamlet'
Identifying residential zones for urban planning using the 'landuse' attribute
Strengths
Multilingual support with 'name:en' and 'name:tr' fields
Available in four GIS formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML
Categorized by settlement hierarchy including 'city', 'town', and 'isolated_dwelling'
Limitations
Crowdsourced nature leads to inconsistent attribute density, particularly for the 'population' field
Geographic coverage may be biased toward areas with higher OpenStreetMap contributor activity
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Crowdsourced geospatial mapping exported via HOT
Freshness
Updated as of March 2026.
Geography
Turkey
Distributed under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL); requires attribution to OpenStreetMap contributors.