Saudi Arabia Road Network from OpenStreetMap, 2026 Export

Saudi Arabia's road network features extracted from OpenStreetMap, including attributes such as name, highway type, surface, and lanes. The dataset is maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated in March 2026. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and Shapefile.

Use Cases

• Route planning and network analysis based on highway classification and oneway attributes.
• Assessing road infrastructure quality based on surface and smoothness attributes.
• Generating bilingual maps or navigation systems using name and name:ar attributes.
• Modeling traffic capacity based on lane count and width attributes.

Strengths

• Includes multiple road attributes such as surface, lanes, and oneway, which suggests detailed feature tagging.
• Available in five common geospatial formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML) for flexibility.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and openly licensed mapping project.

Limitations

• Row count is 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 filtered for features where tags['highway'] IS NOT NULL.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:06:57.026347; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Saudi Arabia