Ugandan Settlements and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Uganda includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exports this data, which is useful for demographic context and settlement-level targeting. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas usually well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.

Use Cases

• Demographic context analysis based on settlement and residential land data.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on populated place locations.
• Population distribution modeling based on the density and type of residential areas.

Strengths

• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:07:27.859475

Geography

Uganda