Palestinian Sea Ports and Ferry Terminals from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features in the State of Palestine tagged as ports or ferry terminals. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, which includes attributes like names, addresses, and operators. Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including KML, GEOJSON, and SHP.

Use Cases

• Mapping port infrastructure locations based on OpenStreetMap tags like 'port' and 'ferry_terminal'.
• Analyzing the distribution of maritime facilities based on geographic coordinates.
• Validating or enriching address data for ports using attributes like 'addr:full' and 'addr:city'.
• Studying the operational structure of ports based on the 'operator:type' attribute.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and frequently updated global mapping project.
• Includes multilingual name attributes ('name:en', 'name:ar') which may aid in localization.
• Available in four common geospatial file formats (KML, GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE) for flexibility.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-05-05 15:08:56.707972; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 15:08:56.707972

Geography

State of Palestine