Peru Airport and Helipad Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features in Peru tagged as airports, aerodromes, or helipads, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The dataset includes attributes such as name, aeroway type, operator, and address details, and is available in multiple geospatial file formats. It was last updated on 2026-05-05.

Use Cases

• Map airport locations and types based on the aeroway attribute.
• Analyze the distribution of emergency landing sites based on the emergency and emergency:helipad tags.
• Identify airport operators and capacities based on the operator:type and capacity:persons fields.
• Study multilingual naming conventions for airports based on the name, name:en, name:es, name:qu, name:ay, and name:cni columns.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual airport names (English, Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, and Campa) as described.
• Available in five common geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, GARMIN IMG, SHP, GEOJSON.
• Derived from a collaborative, open-source mapping project (OpenStreetMap).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is 2026-05-05.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific aeroway tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 19:46:56.729434

Geography

Peru