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Airfields and ports, mapped from open data

What we are building: a 2026 research preview of open satellite data, saved maps, and public pipeline readings.

Kenya, below, is the saved second-source check. Every other catalog country loads its OurAirports and World Port Index list from 13 Oct 2026. The index of those lists is the open-list index. That list is not a route map.

Kenya's listed airfields and ports, mapped from open data, not a route map.

Map of Kenya with 345 OurAirports airfields and 4 World Port Index ports, each marked as also in OpenStreetMap, also on a published Sentinel-2 still, or no second source yet, with labelled arrows to Isiolo, Lodwar and Moi International airports, one airstrip with no second source yet and Lamu port. No route lines.
Kenya airfields and ports, mapped from open data on 13 Nov 2026. No route lines.Credit: OurAirports; NGA World Port Index; (c) OpenStreetMap contributors; Copernicus Sentinel-2; Natural Earth. Licence: public domain, ODbL 1.0, Copernicus open data. Data date 13 Nov 2026. Provenance.
More detailOurAirports and World Port Index lists retrieved 12 Oct 2026; OpenStreetMap aerodromes read 13 Nov 2026; Sentinel-2 still extents as published on the site. Cached at 13 Nov 2026 (saved map and table).

What open data shows

ListListedAlso in OpenStreetMap (2 km)On a published Sentinel-2 stillNo second source yet
Airfields (OurAirports)3452253120
Ports (World Port Index)4not checked yet13

No second source yet means no second open source agrees yet. It does not mean unserved, closed or wrong. Cached at 13 Nov 2026 (computed from the saved lists). Source: OurAirports (public domain), NGA World Port Index (US Government public domain), OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0), Copernicus Sentinel-2 (open data). The open-data table (JSON, 13 Nov 2026).

How we know

  • An airfield counts as "also in OpenStreetMap" when a mapped aerodrome or airstrip lies within 2 km of the listed point.
  • "On a Sentinel-2 still" means the point falls inside a satellite image already published on this site. More stills will give those sites a second source.
  • Ports are not yet checked against OpenStreetMap: coming.
  • Software R&D from open lists: no flight, no ground visit, no route planning.