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Amenities (OpenStreetMap)
Overview
This layer shows amenities—locations where city residents can access goods, services, employment, and other necessities of life—based on the most recent public contributions to the crowdsourced spatial dataset OpenStreetMap.
Function
To identify locations where city residents travel to and gather.
Source
WRI
Data sources
OpenStreetMap
Spatial resolution
100 meter
Spatial coverage
Selection of global cities
Temporal resolution
-
Temporal coverage
NA
Cautions
OpenStreetMap is a crowdsourced dataset and is subject to error due to contributor error, gaps in coverage, and outdated data. The data should not be used to locate particular amenity locations, but rather in aggregate to identify patterns in amenity distribution.