South African Airports and Aerodromes from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features in South Africa tagged as airports, aerodromes, helipads, or landing sites. The dataset includes attributes such as name, aeroway type, building classification, address details, and names in multiple South African languages. It is an export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map aviation facility locations based on geospatial coordinates and aeroway tags.
• Analyze airport naming conventions and multilingual labels based on name attributes in languages like Afrikaans, Zulu, and Xhosa.
• Identify facility types and capacities for infrastructure planning based on aeroway, building, and capacity:persons fields.
• Verify data sources and contributors for humanitarian or research projects based on the source attribute.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual naming data, with attributes for names in at least nine South African languages.
• Covers multiple aviation facility types, including airports, aerodromes, helipads, and emergency landing sites.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats, including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, SHP, and KML.

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; last update was 2026-03-03 09:29:27.112481.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:29:27.112481

Geography

South Africa