Australian Water Features from OpenStreetMap for Environmental Analysis
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide water features across Australia, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and water bodies. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15. Data completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more complete than remote ones.
Use Cases
Flood-risk modelling based on mapped waterway and water body locations.
Watershed analysis based on the network of rivers and streams.
Creating environmental basemap context for other spatial analyses.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
Covers multiple water feature types (rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, water bodies).
Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
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, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 11:03:47.794728; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Australia
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.