Pakistan Waterways and Water Bodies from OpenStreetMap

Pakistan's waterways and water bodies, including rivers, wetlands, and bays, extracted from OpenStreetMap. The dataset is an export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and was last updated on March 3, 2026. Features may include attributes such as name, waterway type, width, depth, and source.

Use Cases

• Mapping river networks and water bodies based on the waterway and natural tags.
• Assessing water feature dimensions for infrastructure planning based on width and depth attributes.
• Analyzing multilingual place names for cultural or regional studies based on name:en and name:ur fields.
• Identifying man-made water structures and their properties based on tunnel, covered, and blockage attributes.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes multiple geometric file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for interoperability.
• Released under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), permitting sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

OpenStreetMap export matching tags for waterway, water, and natural features.

Time Range

null

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:31:05.040149; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pakistan