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Description
OpenStreetMap exports for Pakistan contain all features where the 'highway' tag is not null. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides this data, which was last updated on 2026-03-03. Features may include attributes such as name, highway type, surface, smoothness, width, lanes, and bridge status.
Use Cases
Route planning and network analysis based on road type and oneway attributes.
Infrastructure quality assessment based on surface and smoothness data.
Spatial analysis of road density and connectivity across Pakistan.
Multilingual mapping applications utilizing name attributes in English and Urdu.
Strengths
Data is derived from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, offering community-verified features.
Includes multiple geometric file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
Attributes cover physical road characteristics like surface, width, and lanes.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Last updated 2026-03-03 09:26:29.431667; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Export from the OpenStreetMap database, filtered for features where tags['highway'] IS NOT NULL.
Time Range
null
Freshness
2026-03-03
Geography
Pakistan
License is ODbL-1.0 (Open Database License), which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.