Sudan Waterways from OpenStreetMap for Flood Risk Modelling
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide water features across Sudan, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, and water bodies. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, last updated on 2026-05-09. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more thoroughly mapped than remote areas.
Use Cases
Model flood-risk based on the distribution of mapped rivers, streams, and water bodies.
Conduct watershed analysis using the network of canals and waterways.
Create environmental basemaps for contextual analysis using lakes and ponds.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Derived from a well-known, collaborative mapping source (OpenStreetMap).
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-09 19:38:06.422040; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Sudan
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.