Kosovo Waterways and Water Bodies from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features from Kosovo where tags for 'waterway', 'water', or 'natural' indicate a water-related feature. The dataset is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on March 3, 2026. It includes attributes such as name, waterway type, width, depth, and names in multiple languages.

Use Cases

• Map river networks and water bodies based on the 'waterway' and 'natural' tags.
• Assess physical characteristics of waterways using the 'width' and 'depth' attributes.
• Analyze multilingual place names for water features using the 'name:en', 'name:sq', and 'name:sr' columns.
• Identify man-made water infrastructure based on attributes like 'covered', 'tunnel', and 'layer'.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geometric file formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML.
• Attributes cover physical properties (width, depth) and multilingual naming.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative, open-licensed mapping project.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific water-related tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:53:21.630151; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kosovo