Vanuatu Road Network with Multilingual Names and Surface Attributes

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