Global Road Network
Every classified road on earth, harmonised into a single routable graph.
What this dataset is
A planet-wide road graph, harmonised from OpenStreetMap and national road registries where they are openly available. Each edge in the graph carries a road class (motorway, trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary, residential, service, track, path), a surface tag, a speed limit where known, and a stable identifier.
Where national authoritative data is available under a compatible licence, it is preferred over OSM; otherwise OSM is used.
What you get
- An edge-and-node GeoPackage that can be loaded directly into routing engines.
- A GeoParquet mirror partitioned by country.
- A snapshot of the underlying OSM PBF, for users who want the full upstream record.
Typical uses
- Routing, accessibility and travel-time analysis.
- Logistics, last-mile and supply-chain modelling.
- Disaster response and humanitarian access mapping.
- Infrastructure asset inventories.
Licensing note
Where this dataset incorporates data from OpenStreetMap, the underlying ODbL terms also apply. The CC BY 4.0 attribution string above already credits OSM contributors; please retain it in derived works.
Suggested attribution
Roads: OpenData.Earth — CC BY 4.0 (incorporates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)
