Railways of Côte d'Ivoire from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions provide railway lines, tram tracks, and station locations across Côte d'Ivoire. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exports this data in multiple geospatial formats, including GeoPackage and GeoJSON. Coverage likely varies, with urban areas being more completely mapped than remote regions.

Use Cases

• Analyze transport network connectivity based on railway line geometry.
• Assess station accessibility for urban planning based on station point locations.
• Create contextual basemaps for regional studies using the provided geospatial features.
• Compare mapping completeness between urban and remote areas based on the description of volunteer activity.

Strengths

• Data is available in six common geospatial formats, including GeoPackage and GeoJSON.
• The dataset is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
• It includes multiple railway feature types such as lines, tram tracks, and stations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Coverage is uneven, with sparse data in remote areas due to reliance on volunteer mappers.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 02:09:58.531668; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Côte d'Ivoire