Airport and Helipad Features for South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

OpenStreetMap exports provide geospatial data for aviation infrastructure in the remote South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team compiled this dataset, which was last updated on March 3, 2026. Features are filtered to include aerodromes, helipads, and landing sites with attributes like name, operator type, and address.

Use Cases

• Map aviation infrastructure locations based on OpenStreetMap aeroway tags.
• Identify emergency landing sites and helipads based on emergency service tags.
• Analyze facility capacity and operator types based on the capacity:persons and operator:type attributes.
• Geocode airport addresses for logistical planning based on addr:full and addr:city fields.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a globally collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
• Covers a specific, remote geographic area with a clear thematic focus on aviation.

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 features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tag filters.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:31:24.577552; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands