Algeria Waterways and Water Bodies from OpenStreetMap
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Description
OpenStreetMap features for Algeria matching tags related to waterways, water bodies, and wetlands. The dataset is an export from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-05. It includes features such as rivers, canals, lakes, and bays, with attributes like name, width, depth, and tunnel status.
Use Cases
Mapping river networks and water bodies based on the 'waterway' and 'natural' attributes.
Assessing infrastructure features like tunnels and blockages for waterways.
Analyzing the multilingual naming of water features using the 'name:ar' and 'name:ber' attributes.
Estimating water feature dimensions for hydrological modeling using the 'width' and 'depth' attributes.
Strengths
Includes multiple geometric file formats: KML, GEOJSON, SHP, and GEOPACKAGE.
Attributes are defined with links to OpenStreetMap wiki documentation for clarity.
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative mapping project with global coverage.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Last updated 2026-05-05 14:54:53.904222; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Export from OpenStreetMap based on specific tag filters.
Freshness
2026-05-05 14:54:53.904222
Geography
Algeria
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.