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Description
American Samoa water features exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and water bodies tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water`. It was last updated on 2026-05-13 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Use Cases
Flood-risk modelling based on the mapped network of rivers and streams.
Watershed analysis based on the delineation of water bodies and drainage features.
Creating environmental basemaps for contextual analysis based on the comprehensive water feature layer.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
Covers multiple water feature types including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-13 23:48:13.929237.
Geography
American Samoa
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.