Austrian Water Features from OpenStreetMap for Hydrological Analysis
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds across Austria. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-13. Completeness varies, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote regions.
Use Cases
Model flood-risk zones based on the distribution of rivers and streams.
Conduct watershed analysis using the network of waterways and water bodies.
Create environmental basemaps for regional planning using lakes, ponds, and canals.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
Includes multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON) for flexibility.
Covers a specific geographic region (Austria) for focused analysis.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-13 23:59:14.748377; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Austria
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.