Road Network of Syria from OpenStreetMap for Routing and Analysis

OpenStreetMap data provides a road network across Syria tagged with highway types such as motorways, residential streets, service roads, footways, and trails. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exports this data, which was last updated on 2026-06-22. Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity, with urban areas likely being well-represented and remote areas potentially sparse.

Use Cases

• Plan evacuation routes based on the network of motorways and residential streets.
• Analyze accessibility to services based on the presence of footways and service roads.
• Model transportation networks for humanitarian logistics using the tagged highway types.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple highway types such as motorways, residential streets, service roads, footways, and trails.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.

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 via the OpenStreetMap collaborative platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 19:11:25.663350; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Syria