Niger Road Network from OpenStreetMap for Routing and Analysis
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Description
Niger's road network exported from OpenStreetMap. It includes all features tagged with `highway`, such as motorways, residential streets, footways, and trails. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains the export, which was last updated on 2026-05-14.
Use Cases
Calculate optimal routes for logistics based on the road network.
Analyze regional accessibility based on road types and connectivity.
Plan evacuation routes for disaster response based on the mapped highway infrastructure.
Model transportation networks for infrastructure development.
Strengths
Covers all OpenStreetMap features tagged with `highway`, suggesting a broad categorization of road types.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON) for flexibility.
Explicitly licensed under ODbL-1.0, clarifying reuse terms.
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, but 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 via the OpenStreetMap project.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 21:20:15.432279; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Niger
Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge due to potential mapping gaps.