Vietnam Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap
Updated 3mo ago
8filesSHP
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Description
Geospatial settlement data for Vietnam exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. It captures point and polygon features categorized by settlement type, such as cities, towns, and hamlets, alongside residential land use zones.
Use Cases
Analyzing urban sprawl by filtering for 'landuse' tagged as 'residential'
Developing localized navigation tools using 'name:vi' for Vietnamese language support
Estimating settlement density by grouping features by the 'place' attribute (e.g., hamlet vs. town)
Strengths
Provides multilingual support via 'name:vi' and 'name:en' columns
Available in four standard GIS formats including SHP and GeoJSON
Includes specific settlement classifications from 'isolated_dwelling' to 'city'
Limitations
Subject to OpenStreetMap volunteer mapping bias, potentially favoring urban over rural areas
Population figures are often missing or inconsistent with official government census data
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Crowdsourced geospatial data export
Freshness
Updated March 2026
Geography
Vietnam
Requires attribution to OpenStreetMap contributors under the ODC-ODbL license.