Yemen Building Footprints from OpenStreetMap for Population and Damage Assessment

OpenStreetMap exports provide building footprints across Yemen, including residential, hospital, school, and religious structures. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies, with urban areas likely being more thoroughly mapped than remote regions.

Use Cases

• Estimate population distribution based on building locations and types.
• Assess damage to infrastructure after a conflict or natural disaster based on building footprint data.
• Plan urban development and service delivery using a map of building locations.
• Cross-reference local field knowledge with volunteered geographic information for validation.

Strengths

• Includes all OpenStreetMap features tagged as a building, from homes to hospitals.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and updated as recently as 2026-05-15.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; 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 and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:25:05.675956

Geography

Yemen