Mauritania Road Network from OpenStreetMap for Routing and Analysis

OpenStreetMap exports provide a free, collaboratively built road network for Mauritania. Completeness varies, with urban areas likely being well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete. The data includes all features tagged with `highway`, such as motorways, residential streets, and trails.

Use Cases

• Calculate travel times and distances for routing based on the road network.
• Assess regional accessibility for services or aid delivery based on road connectivity.
• Plan evacuation routes for disaster response based on the mapped highway hierarchy.
• Analyze road density and infrastructure gaps for development planning.

Strengths

• Covers all OpenStreetMap features tagged with `highway`, including motorways, residential streets, and trails.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Licensed under the ODbL-1.0, allowing for sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap, with remote areas potentially incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 20:40:11.365521; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mauritania