North Korea Waterways from OpenStreetMap for Flood Risk and Watershed Analysis
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide water features across North Korea, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely more detailed than remote ones.
Use Cases
Model flood risk based on the distribution of rivers, streams, and water bodies.
Conduct watershed analysis using the network of waterways.
Create environmental basemaps for contextual analysis using lakes, ponds, and canals.
Strengths
Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free and collaborative global mapping project.
Includes multiple export formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON) for flexibility.
Covers a specific and often data-scarce region (North Korea).
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 22:49:44.557762; freshness should be verified.
Geography
North Korea
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.