Greenland Waterways from OpenStreetMap for Environmental Analysis
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6filesGEOPACKAGE
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Description
OpenStreetMap water features across Greenland include rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and water bodies. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exported this data, last updated on May 14, 2026. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas usually well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.
Use Cases
Model flood-risk based on mapped waterway networks.
Conduct watershed analysis using the spatial distribution of rivers and lakes.
Create environmental basemaps for Greenland using the water body features.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Explicitly includes features tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water`.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-collaborative mapping, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 14:33:53.658131; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Greenland
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.