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Description
Brazil's road network exported from OpenStreetMap includes features tagged with `highway`, such as motorways, residential streets, service roads, footways, and trails. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, which was last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.
Use Cases
Calculate optimal routes based on the hierarchical road network.
Analyze accessibility to services based on road type and connectivity.
Plan evacuation routes for natural disasters using the complete road layer.
Model traffic flow by classifying roads from motorways to footways.
Strengths
Includes a wide range of road types from motorways to trails via the `highway` tag.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 09:33:11.909972; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Brazil
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.