Mexico Road Network from OpenStreetMap, Including Surface and Traffic Attributes

Mexico Roads is an OpenStreetMap export containing all features in Mexico where the 'highway' tag is not null. The dataset, provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), includes attributes such as name, highway type, surface, smoothness, width, lanes, and oneway status. It was last updated on 2026-03 03 10:16:24.077893.

Use Cases

• Route planning and network analysis based on road types and oneway attributes.
• Infrastructure quality assessment based on surface and smoothness data.
• Mapping road names and multilingual labels (name, name:en, name:es) for localization.
• Analyzing road capacity and traffic flow based on lane and width information.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geometric file formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, KML.
• Attributes cover functional (highway type), physical (surface, width), and regulatory (oneway) characteristics of roads.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative global mapping project.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-03-03).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export from the OpenStreetMap database.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:16:24.077893

Geography

Mexico