Egypt Airports and Aerodromes from OpenStreetMap, 2026 Export
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Description
OpenStreetMap data for Egypt includes features tagged as airports, aerodromes, helipads, and landing sites. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-03 03. Features may have attributes like name, aeroway type, building, operator, capacity, and address details.
Use Cases
Mapping airport and aerodrome locations based on geospatial coordinates.
Analyzing aviation infrastructure types based on the 'aeroway' and 'building' tags.
Identifying emergency landing sites and helipads for disaster response planning based on 'emergency' tags.
Studying facility capacity and operator types for infrastructure analysis.
Strengths
Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and openly licensed global mapping project.
Includes multiple feature types: airports, buildings, helipads, and emergency landing sites.
Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML.
Limitations
Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tag filters.
Time Range
Snapshot as of 2026-03-03.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-03 09:49:14.771161; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Egypt
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.