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Description
OpenStreetMap export of water features across the Congo region, provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and other water bodies tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water`. The data was last updated on 2026-05-14.
Use Cases
Flood-risk modelling based on the spatial distribution of rivers and streams.
Watershed analysis using the network of waterway features.
Creating an environmental basemap context from lakes, ponds, and water bodies.
Strengths
Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Explicitly includes features tagged with `waterway`, `water`, and `natural=water` from OpenStreetMap.
Last updated on 2026-05-14, indicating recent maintenance.
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14.
Geography
Congo region
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.