Austrian Road Network from OpenStreetMap, Including Motorways and Trails

OpenStreetMap provides a free, volunteer-built road network for Austria. Completeness varies, with urban areas likely being well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team exported this data, which includes all features tagged with `highway`, such as motorways, residential streets, and footways.

Use Cases

• Calculate optimal routes based on a network of motorways, residential streets, and service roads.
• Analyze regional accessibility and connectivity using the comprehensive road types.
• Plan evacuation routes and disaster response based on the full transportation network.
• Model traffic flow and infrastructure development from the geospatial road data.

Strengths

• Includes all OpenStreetMap features tagged with the `highway` key, covering a wide range of road types from motorways to trails.
• Data is provided in multiple common geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON) for flexibility.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete, as noted in the description.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale projects.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 23:57:27.597085; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Austria