Belgium Road Network from OpenStreetMap, Including Motorways and Footways
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Description
OpenStreetMap provides a free, collaborative road network map for Belgium, built by volunteers. The data includes all features tagged with `highway`, such as motorways, residential streets, service roads, footways, and trails. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more detailed than remote ones.
Use Cases
Calculate optimal routes based on the hierarchical road network.
Analyze accessibility to services based on the inclusion of footways and trails.
Plan evacuation scenarios using the complete network of motorways and residential streets.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
The dataset is explicitly sourced from OpenStreetMap and licensed under ODbL-1.0.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 00:22:47.107204; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Belgium
Users must comply with the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.