Waterways of Myanmar from OpenStreetMap for Flood Risk and Watershed Analysis
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Description
Water features across Myanmar, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds, tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water`. The dataset is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free collaborative world map, and was last updated on 2026-06-19. It is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) on the HDX platform.
Use Cases
Flood-risk modelling based on the spatial distribution of water bodies and waterways.
Watershed analysis using the network of rivers, streams, and canals.
Creating environmental basemap context for regional planning based on water features.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely used collaborative mapping project.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
License is ODbL-1.0, a well-known open data license.
Limitations
Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity, leading to potential sparsity in remote areas.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer mapping contributions
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-19 15:18:09.735527; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Myanmar
License is ODbL-1.0, which may have attribution and share-alike requirements.