South African Sea Ports and Ferry Terminals from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for South Africa tagged as ports or ferry terminals, including multilingual names. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026 03 03. Features likely contain attributes such as name, address, operator type, and source.

Use Cases

• Mapping maritime infrastructure networks based on port and ferry terminal locations.
• Analyzing multilingual place names for South African languages based on the name:xx attributes.
• Identifying port operators and facility types based on the operator:type and amenity tags.
• Geocoding and address validation for port facilities based on the addr:full and addr:city fields.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual name tags for at least 9 South African languages, such as Afrikaans and Zulu.
• Covers multiple feature types: ports, ferry terminals as amenities, and ferry terminal buildings.
• Available in 5 common geospatial file formats, including GeoJSON and Shapefile.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tag filters.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:29:27.894203; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Africa