Vatican City Waterways from OpenStreetMap for Flood Modeling

Water features across the Holy See region exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and water bodies tagged with specific OSM keys. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Flood-risk modeling based on the described waterway and water body features.
• Watershed analysis based on the network of rivers and streams.
• Creating an environmental basemap context based on the collection of water features.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Source is 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.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:19:15.240538; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Holy See (Vatican City State)