Egypt Railway Network and Stations from OpenStreetMap

Egypt Railways is a geospatial dataset from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) containing OpenStreetMap features for railway tracks and stations in Egypt. The data includes attributes such as names in English and Arabic, elevation, operator type, and address details. It was last updated on March 3, 2026, and is available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Map railway network connectivity based on the 'railway' tag values.
• Geocode station locations using the 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' attributes.
• Analyze multilingual place names using the 'name:en' and 'name:ar' fields.
• Model vertical infrastructure layers using the 'layer' and 'ele' (elevation) attributes.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual station names ('name:en', 'name:ar') for localization.
• Provides multiple geospatial export formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML).
• Data is sourced from a collaborative, open-source mapping project (OpenStreetMap).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:52:13.455741; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Egypt