Costa Rica Airports and Aviation Infrastructure from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Costa Rica provide airports, heliports, runways, terminals, and emergency landing sites tagged via `aeroway`, `building`, or `emergency`. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas usually well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.

Use Cases

• Plan evacuation routes based on the locations of airports and emergency landing sites.
• Optimize logistics networks using the mapped locations of airports, helipads, and terminals.
• Assess aviation infrastructure coverage for aerial-response planning based on the included aeroway features.
• Cross-reference field knowledge with the volunteered geographic information for remote area mapping.

Strengths

• Includes multiple aviation infrastructure types: airports, heliports, helipads, runways, terminals, and emergency landing sites.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, and JSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the description.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed geographic data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:50:47.843972; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Costa Rica