Building Footprints Across the Turks and Caicos Islands from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across the Turks and Caicos Islands. The data includes every feature tagged as a building, ranging from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains the export, which was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Population estimation based on building density and types.
• Damage assessment for disaster response by comparing pre- and post-event building footprints.
• Urban planning analysis of land use and infrastructure distribution.
• Mapping critical facilities like hospitals and schools for resource allocation.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes a wide variety of building types, from residential to institutional.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:37:46.126391; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Turks and Caicos Islands