British Virgin Islands Airports and Aviation Infrastructure from OpenStreetMap
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Description
Airports and aviation infrastructure for the British Virgin Islands exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes airports, heliports, helipads, runways, terminals, and emergency landing sites tagged via `aeroway`, `building`, or `emergency` keys. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Use Cases
Plan evacuation routes based on emergency landing site locations.
Optimize logistics networks using airport and heliport locations.
Map aviation infrastructure for regional planning based on aeroway and building features.
Assess aerial response capabilities using runway and terminal data.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
The dataset is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative mapping project.
It covers a specific geographic region, the British Virgin Islands.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
OpenStreetMap completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org)
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 10:43:08.598536.
Geography
British Virgin Islands
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.