Turkey Road Network: OpenStreetMap Export with Surface and Lane Data

Turkey's road network features exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. The data includes all features where the 'highway' tag is present, covering national and local transportation infrastructure.

Use Cases

• Assessing transport accessibility by filtering for 'surface' and 'smoothness' values
• Estimating road capacity for logistics planning using 'lanes' and 'width' columns
• Mapping infrastructure layers using 'bridge' and 'layer' attributes to identify multi-level crossings

Strengths

• Provides data in four interoperable formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML
• Includes specific infrastructure metadata such as 'bridge' and 'layer' tags
• Features bilingual naming conventions in Turkish and English

Limitations

• Crowdsourced nature may lead to inconsistent detail levels between major cities and remote areas
• Temporal lag between real-world changes and OpenStreetMap updates

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial contributions

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Turkey