MapSwipe Results: Myanmar Built Up Areas

Building footprints across the area: every feature tagged `building=*`, from residential homes to hospitals, schools, and places of worship. Useful for population estimation, damage assessment, and urban planning. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: building - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Settlements and residential areas: named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land (`place=*` and `landuse=residential`). Useful for demographic context, settlement-level targeting, and population analysis. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: place, landuse - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) conducted a pilot of Crowdsourced Damage Assessment (CDA) with local mappers from the Myanmar OpenStreetMap Community (myOSM) to identify and map damaged buildings in priority affected townships from the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake. Through the CDA, mappers will review damaged buildings by comparing pre- and post-disaster satellite imageries (from Maxar and Planet) to identify signs of damages. These were reviewed, mapped, and validated with open-source tools MapSwipe, HOT Tasking Manager, and MapRoulette. Damage assessments were conducted in 20 townships, including: Bago, Magway, Aungmyaythazan, Chanayethazan, Mahaaungmyay, Chanmyathazi, Pyigyitagon, Amarapura, Sintgaing, Kyaukse, Meiktila, Thazi, Patheingyi, Za Bu Thi Ri, Det Khi Na Thi Ri, Pyinmana, Poke Ba Thi Ri, Oke Ta Ra Thi Ri, Lewe, and Sagaing. This dataset includes all OpenStreetMap features (nodes, ways, and relations) within Myanmar that contain any tag key related to “damage”.) Features may have these attributes: - name - building - damage - damage:event - source:damage - source:damage:date - addr:street - addr:city - source This dataset is one of many OpenStreetMap exports on HDX. See the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team website for more information.

Points of interest: public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks tagged via `amenity`, `shop`, `tourism`, or `man_made`. Useful for general POI reference, urban analysis, and basemap detail. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: amenity, shop, tourism, man_made - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Education facilities: schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities tagged via `amenity` or `building`. Useful for school-access mapping, education planning, and resource allocation. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: amenity, building - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Health facilities: hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists tagged via `amenity` or `healthcare`. Useful for service-access analysis, emergency response, and healthcare gap mapping. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: amenity, healthcare - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT