Belgium Water Features from OpenStreetMap for Flood Risk and Watershed Analysis
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide water features across Belgium, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and water bodies. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.
Use Cases
Flood-risk modelling based on the spatial distribution of rivers, streams, and water bodies.
Watershed analysis based on the network of waterways and natural water features.
Creating environmental basemap context for other geospatial analyses based on the comprehensive water feature tagging.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Features are tagged using established OpenStreetMap keys: `waterway`, `water`, and `natural=water`.
The dataset is openly 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 incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 00:25:00.378307
Geography
Belgium
Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge due to potential regional incompleteness.