U.S. Virgin Islands Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap

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

Use Cases

• Estimate population density based on building footprint distribution.
• Assess structural damage after natural disasters based on building locations.
• Plan urban infrastructure and services based on building types and locations.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
• 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:07:20.760723; freshness should be verified.

Geography

U.S. Virgin Islands