Waterways of Bosnia and Herzegovina from OpenStreetMap
Updated 25d ago
6filesGEOPACKAGE
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Description
OpenStreetMap data for Bosnia and Herzegovina includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and other water bodies. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exported this data, last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.
Use Cases
Model flood-risk based on the mapped network of rivers, streams, and canals.
Conduct watershed analysis using the spatial distribution of lakes, ponds, and water bodies.
Create an environmental basemap context for regional planning using the OSM-derived water features.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Explicitly includes features tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water` from OpenStreetMap.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 01:10:29.311666; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.