Canadian Waterways from OpenStreetMap for Flood Modeling
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide water features across Canada, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this data under the ODbL-1.0 license.
Use Cases
Model flood-risk based on mapped waterway and water body locations.
Conduct watershed analysis using the network of rivers and streams.
Create environmental basemaps for planning using the water feature context.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
Includes features tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water`.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 15:28:09.724116; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Canada
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative works.