Hong Kong Railway Network Features from OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team provides a geospatial dataset of railway features in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The data includes features tagged as 'rail' or 'station' in OpenStreetMap, with attributes such as names, elevation, and operator details. The dataset was last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map railway station locations based on the 'railway' and 'name' attributes.
• Analyze railway network elevation profiles based on the 'ele' (elevation) attribute.
• Identify railway operators and their types based on the 'operator:type' attribute.
• Geocode station addresses for spatial analysis based on the 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' attributes.
• Cross-reference multilingual station names based on the 'name:en' and 'name:zh' attributes.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and frequently updated global mapping project.
• Includes multilingual naming attributes ('name:en', 'name:zh') for localization.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (GeoPackage, GeoJSON, SHP, KML).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-03-03).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific railway tags.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:15:17.071388

Geography

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China