Papua New Guinea Road Network from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide the road network across Papua New Guinea. The data includes all features tagged with `highway`, such as motorways, residential streets, service roads, footways, and trails. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, which was last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Calculate travel times and optimal routes based on the hierarchical road network.
• Assess regional accessibility for services or disaster response based on road types and connectivity.
• Plan evacuation routes and identify vulnerable areas based on the documented road infrastructure.
• Analyze transportation infrastructure density and coverage across urban and remote regions.

Strengths

• Includes a wide range of road types, from motorways to footways and trails.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON) for interoperability.
• The dataset is openly available under the ODbL-1.0 license.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, while 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 for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and collaborative editing.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 22:43:55.910054; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Papua New Guinea