Waterways of Estonia from OpenStreetMap for Hydrological Analysis

Waterways of Estonia is a geospatial dataset of water features across the country, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds. The data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free collaborative world map, and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-06-27.

Use Cases

• Flood-risk modelling based on the spatial distribution of water bodies.
• Watershed analysis based on the network of rivers and streams.
• Creating environmental basemap context for regional planning based on water features.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Features are tagged with specific OpenStreetMap keys (waterway, water, natural=water) for identification.

Limitations

• Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity; remote areas may be sparse.
• 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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 05:40:34.360609; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Estonia