Vanuatu Airports: Multilingual Geospatial Infrastructure Data

Geospatial features for aviation infrastructure in Vanuatu exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). The data includes airports, helipads, and emergency landing sites identified by aeroway and emergency tags as of March 2026. It provides localized facility attributes across multiple formats including SHP and GeoJSON.

Use Cases

• Identify emergency evacuation points using the emergency:helipad and emergency tags
• Analyze facility management and ownership using the operator:type attribute
• Create localized maps for Bislama speakers using the name:bis column

Strengths

• Multilingual support including Bislama (name:bis) and French (name:fr) labels
• Includes specialized emergency infrastructure tags like emergency:helipad
• Available in four standard geospatial formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML

Limitations

• Crowdsourced attribute data is subject to varying levels of completeness
• Geographic scope is restricted to the islands of Vanuatu
• Total feature count is not specified in the source metadata

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) via OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial digitization and tagging

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Vanuatu