Aviation Infrastructure of Ecuador: Airports, Heliports, and Emergency Landing Sites

OpenStreetMap data for Ecuador's aviation infrastructure, including airports, heliports, helipads, runways, terminals, and emergency landing sites. The dataset is contributed by volunteer mappers and maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, with a last recorded update on 2026-06-27. Coverage likely reflects mapper activity, with urban areas typically better represented than remote regions.

Use Cases

• Plan logistics and supply routes based on airport and runway locations.
• Model evacuation routing scenarios based on the network of aviation facilities.
• Coordinate aerial-response planning for disasters based on helipad and emergency landing site data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple facility types tagged via specific OpenStreetMap keys (aeroway, building, emergency).
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with remote areas potentially sparse due to reliance on volunteer mapper activity.
• 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 and collaborative contributions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 05:24:06.795204; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ecuador