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Description
OpenStreetMap water features for Panama, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds. The data is sourced from a global volunteer-built map, where completeness likely varies between urban and remote areas. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Flood-risk modelling based on mapped waterway networks.
Watershed analysis using the spatial distribution of rivers and streams.
Creating environmental basemaps for contextual analysis of water bodies.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, and GEOJSON.
Derived from a widely-used, free, and collaborative mapping source (OpenStreetMap).
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 22:37:41.275003
Geography
Panama
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.