Roads of South Sudan: OpenStreetMap Network for Routing and Analysis

South Sudan's road network tagged with OpenStreetMap's highway classification, including motorways, residential streets, service roads, footways, and trails. The data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free collaborative world map, and was last updated on 2026-06-22. It is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as part of their exports grid on HDX.

Use Cases

• Plan vehicle routing based on the classified highway network.
• Analyze accessibility to services based on road type and connectivity.
• Model evacuation scenarios using the network of motorways and residential streets.
• Assess infrastructure coverage by comparing urban and remote area representation.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, JSON, HTML).
• The dataset is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
• Coverage includes a variety of road types from motorways to footways and trails.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with urban areas likely well-represented and remote areas potentially sparse.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping contributions aggregated by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 19:02:20.945392.

Geography

South Sudan