Road Network for Sao Tome and Principe from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide the road network across Sao Tome and Principe, including motorways, residential streets, and trails. The data is built by volunteers, leading to variable completeness where urban areas are usually well-mapped but remote areas may be incomplete. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export on HDX.

Use Cases

• Plan evacuation routes based on the mapped network of roads and trails.
• Analyze regional accessibility based on the inclusion of motorways, residential streets, and footways.
• Perform routing analysis for transportation planning using the geospatial road network.

Strengths

• Includes all OpenStreetMap features tagged with `highway`, from motorways to trails.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
• Maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:56:01.013112; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sao Tome and Principe