Tanzania Aviation Infrastructure: OpenStreetMap Export of Airports and Helipads

Tanzania aviation infrastructure data exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. The dataset captures airports, aerodromes, helipads, and emergency landing sites across the country. It provides geospatial coordinates and facility attributes for humanitarian and logistics planning.

Use Cases

• Identifying emergency evacuation points using the emergency:helipad and emergency tags
• Analyzing aviation facility ownership patterns via the operator:type field
• Spatial distribution mapping of transport hubs using the aeroway and building=aerodrome classifications

Strengths

• Multilingual support with English (name:en) and Swahili (name:sw) name tags
• Available in four geospatial formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML
• Includes specialized emergency infrastructure tags like emergency:helipad and landing_site

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data subject to varying levels of attribute completeness
• Unknown total record count in metadata

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data export

Time Range

Up to March 2026

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Tanzania