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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide a road network for Zambia, including motorways, residential streets, service roads, footways, and trails. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically well-mapped and remote areas potentially incomplete.
Use Cases
Plan evacuation routes based on the comprehensive road network.
Analyze transportation accessibility based on road types like motorways and footways.
Calculate travel times for routing applications using the street hierarchy.
Strengths
Includes all OpenStreetMap features tagged with `highway`, from motorways to trails.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and JSON.
Maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and updated as of 2026-05-15.
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 10:22:15.149095
Geography
Zambia
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.