Albania Airports and Aviation Infrastructure from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide a free, collaborative map of Albania's aviation infrastructure. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team maintains this dataset, which includes airports, heliports, runways, and emergency landing sites. It was last updated on 2026-05-10.

Use Cases

• Plan evacuation routes based on emergency landing site locations.
• Optimize logistics networks using airport and heliport infrastructure.
• Model aerial response capabilities from runway and terminal data.

Strengths

• Data is provided in a GEOPACKAGE format suitable for GIS analysis.
• Covers multiple aviation infrastructure types, including airports, helipads, and runways.
• Licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0) for open use.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
• 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 via OpenStreetMap tags (aeroway, building, emergency).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-10 00:51:01.756581; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Albania