Viet Nam Airports and Helipads: OpenStreetMap Geospatial Infrastructure

This geospatial dataset contains aviation infrastructure features across Vietnam, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. It maps points and polygons for airports, aerodromes, and emergency landing sites identified through specific OSM tags like 'aeroway' and 'emergency:helipad'.

Use Cases

• Mapping regional aviation networks using the 'aeroway' and 'building' classification tags
• Identifying emergency response locations by filtering for 'emergency:helipad' and 'emergency' landing sites
• Spatial analysis of transport accessibility using 'addr:city' and 'addr:full' for geocoding

Strengths

• Available in four standard geospatial formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML
• Includes localized naming in both English (name:en) and Vietnamese (name:vi)
• Captures specialized emergency infrastructure via 'emergency:helipad' and 'landing_site' tags

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data may exhibit geographic bias with higher feature density in urban centers compared to rural provinces
• Lacks a verified record count in the primary metadata

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data aggregated and exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) platform

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Vietnam