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Description
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
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.