British Indian Ocean Territory Airport and Helipad Features from OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team provides a geospatial dataset of airport and helipad features in the British Indian Ocean Territory. The data is an export from OpenStreetMap, containing features tagged as aeroways, aerodrome buildings, or emergency landing sites. It was last updated on 2026-05-05 and is available in multiple geospatial file formats under the ODbL license.

Use Cases

• Map aviation infrastructure locations based on OpenStreetMap aeroway tags.
• Identify emergency landing sites and helipads based on emergency-related tags.
• Analyze airport facility attributes based on features like name, operator type, and capacity.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project.
• Includes multiple potential attributes per feature, such as name, aeroway type, and address details.
• Available in several standard geospatial formats (KML, GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-05-05).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) via OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Export from the OpenStreetMap database based on specific tag filters.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 12:20:27.528339

Geography

British Indian Ocean Territory