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Description
New Caledonia's water features exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and other water bodies tagged with `waterway`, `water`, or `natural=water`. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Flood-risk modelling based on the spatial distribution of rivers and streams.
Watershed analysis using the network of waterways and water bodies.
Creating an environmental basemap context from the collection of lakes, ponds, and canals.
Strengths
Includes multiple water feature types (rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds).
Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global map.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
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-contributed mapping.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14.
Geography
New Caledonia
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.