Faroe Islands Waterways from OpenStreetMap

Water features across the Faroe Islands exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and water bodies tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water`. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team under the ODbL-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Flood-risk modelling based on waterway and water body locations.
• Watershed analysis based on river and stream network data.
• Creating environmental basemap context for other geospatial analyses.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• The dataset is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.

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 mapping.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:32:57.146461

Geography

Faroe Islands