Airports and Aviation Infrastructure of the Cook Islands

OpenStreetMap volunteer mappers have tagged airports, heliports, runways, terminals, and emergency landing sites across the Cook Islands. The dataset includes features tagged with `aeroway`, `building`, or `emergency` keys and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Coverage likely reflects mapper activity, with urban areas better represented than remote regions.

Use Cases

• Plan evacuation routes based on the locations of airports and emergency landing sites.
• Coordinate aerial logistics and supply drops using mapped helipads and runways.
• Assess aviation infrastructure coverage for remote area accessibility planning.

Strengths

• Includes multiple aviation infrastructure types: airports, heliports, runways, terminals, and emergency landing sites.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, HTML, GEOJSON, JSON.

Limitations

• Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity; remote areas may be sparsely represented.
• 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 mapping via OpenStreetMap's collaborative platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 02:19:13.386822

Geography

Cook Islands