Viet Nam Waterways: Geospatial Hydrology Data with Multilingual Names

This geospatial dataset maps rivers, wetlands, and bays across Vietnam, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Updated in March 2026, the collection includes features categorized by waterway and natural tags in multiple GIS formats. It provides localized naming in both English and Vietnamese for hydrological features.

Use Cases

• Hydrological network modeling using the waterway and water tags to trace river systems
• Infrastructure risk assessment by identifying tunnel and blockage locations within water networks
• Localized cartography and navigation using name:en and name:vi for bilingual map rendering

Strengths

• Multilingual support with name:en and name:vi fields for all labeled features
• Includes specific structural attributes like tunnel and blockage status
• Provided in four standard GIS formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML

Limitations

• Geographic bias toward urban or high-interest areas typical of crowdsourced OpenStreetMap data
• Physical measurements like depth are often missing or estimated by contributors

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data collection and community tagging

Freshness

Highly current, with the last export generated in March 2026.

Geography

Vietnam