Vanuatu Road Network with Multilingual Names and Surface Attributes
Updated 3mo ago
8filesSHP
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Description
Geospatial road network data for Vanuatu extracted from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. The collection includes vector features for all 'highway' tags, providing attributes for road classification, surface type, and multilingual naming.
Use Cases
Network analysis for disaster response using the 'highway' and 'bridge' tags
Infrastructure assessment based on 'surface' and 'smoothness' attributes
Multilingual map rendering using 'name:en', 'name:fr', and 'name:bis' columns
Strengths
Includes multilingual name tags for English, French, and Bislama
Available in four standard GIS formats (SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, KML)
Provides specific physical attributes like surface and smoothness
Limitations
Data completeness is subject to volunteer mapping efforts
Width and lane counts may be null for many segments
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Collection Method
Crowdsourced geospatial data exported via the HOT export tool.
Freshness
Last updated March 2026.
Geography
Vanuatu
Requires GIS software to process SHP or GeoPackage files; licensed under ODC-ODbL which requires attribution.