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GRID3 Nigeria Settlement Extents v4.0 vs OpenStreetMap Nigeria Extract (Geofabrik)
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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Geographic
Geographic
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Free / ODbL
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
geopackage, settlements, grid3, building-footprints, ciesin
openstreetmap, osm, shapefile, geopackage, vector
Summary
Geospatial dataset mapping Nigeria's settlements as settlement blocks with block-level building counts/areas, Google Open Buildings 2.5D heights, and Sentinel-2 NDVI/EVI metrics. Released March 2026 by CIESIN/Columbia in OGC GeoPackage format under CC BY-SA 4.0 via the GRID3 Data Hub.
Daily-updated OpenStreetMap data extract for Nigeria in .osm.pbf (~677 MB), ESRI shapefile .shp.zip (~2.0 GB) and .gpkg.zip (~2.0 GB), plus dated historical snapshots. Distributed by Geofabrik under ODbL.