Turkey Aviation Infrastructure: OpenStreetMap Airports and Helipads

Aviation infrastructure data for Turkey exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. It captures geographic features tagged as aeroways, aerodromes, and emergency landing sites across the country.

Use Cases

• Identifying emergency evacuation points using the 'emergency:helipad' and 'emergency' tags
• Categorizing aviation infrastructure by management type using 'operator:type'
• Spatial mapping of Turkish transport hubs using 'addr:city' and 'addr:full' for location validation

Strengths

• Multilingual support with 'name:en' and 'name:tr' fields
• Available in four geospatial formats including SHP and GeoJSON
• Includes specific emergency tags for helipads and landing sites

Limitations

• Crowdsourced nature may lead to incomplete coverage of remote or restricted military zones
• Variable attribute density where fields like 'capacity:persons' may be frequently null

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data export

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Turkey