Wallis and Futuna Sea Ports and Ferry Terminals Geospatial Data

This geospatial dataset captures maritime infrastructure including ports and ferry terminals across the Wallis and Futuna Islands, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Updated in March 2026, the data identifies features through specific OSM tags such as amenity, building, and port status. It provides localized and English naming conventions alongside administrative address details where available.

Use Cases

• Mapping maritime transport networks using the 'amenity' and 'port' tags
• Analyzing infrastructure management patterns through the 'operator:type' field
• Geocoding specific harbor locations using 'addr:city' and 'addr:full' attributes

Strengths

• Available in four standard GIS formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML
• Includes bilingual naming support via 'name' and 'name:en' fields
• Standardized OSM tagging schema allows for integration with other HOT infrastructure datasets

Limitations

• Extremely narrow geographic scope limited to the Wallis and Futuna territory
• Small sample size due to the limited number of maritime facilities in the region
• Potential for label noise inherent in crowdsourced OpenStreetMap data

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data export

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Wallis and Futuna Islands