Ethiopian Airport and Helipad Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide geospatial data for all features in Ethiopia tagged as airports, aerodrome buildings, or emergency landing sites. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this dataset, which was last updated on March 3, 2026. Features likely contain attributes such as name, aeroway type, operator, capacity, and multilingual name tags.

Use Cases

• Mapping aviation infrastructure density based on the 'aeroway' and 'building' tags.
• Analyzing airport naming conventions and localization based on multilingual 'name:*' attributes.
• Planning emergency response routes based on locations tagged with 'emergency:helipad' or 'emergency' = 'landing_site'.
• Assessing facility capacity for regional planning using the 'capacity:persons' attribute.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple feature types: airports, buildings, and emergency landing sites.
• Attributes provide multilingual names in languages like Amharic ('name:am'), Oromo ('name:om'), and Somali ('name:so').
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, and KML.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified despite the last updated date of 2026-03 03.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tag filters.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:21:09.748660

Geography

Ethiopia