Afghanistan Railway Lines and Stations from OpenStreetMap

Railway lines and stations for Afghanistan, tagged from the OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping project. The dataset includes rail lines, tram tracks, and stations, and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-06-20.

Use Cases

• Analyze transport network accessibility based on railway line and station locations.
• Create basemap context layers for regional mapping projects.
• Assess urban versus rural infrastructure coverage based on volunteer mapper activity mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Licensed under the ODbL-1.0, a recognized open data license.

Limitations

• Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity; urban areas are likely well-represented while remote areas may be sparse.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed geographic data tagged with the `railway=*` key.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-20 10:38:48.114055

Geography

Afghanistan