Venezuela Waterways from OpenStreetMap for Flood Risk Modeling

OpenStreetMap exports provide water features across Venezuela, including rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and ponds. Data is sourced from a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers, with completeness varying significantly between urban and remote areas. The dataset is useful for flood-risk modelling, watershed analysis, and environmental basemap context.

Use Cases

• Flood-risk modelling based on the spatial distribution of rivers, streams, and water bodies.
• Watershed analysis using the network of waterways and natural water features.
• Creating an environmental basemap context for regional planning based on lakes, ponds, and canals.

Strengths

• Includes multiple water feature types (rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds) tagged with specific OSM keys.
• Available in multiple common geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON).
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free and openly licensed (ODbL-1.0) global map.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:11:03.854837; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Venezuela