El Salvador Railway Lines and Stations from OpenStreetMap

Railway lines and stations for El Salvador, exported from OpenStreetMap and tagged with the `railway` key. The data includes rail lines, tram tracks, and stations, and was last updated on 2026-05-14. It is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) under the ODbL 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Conducting transport accessibility analysis based on railway line locations.
• Creating contextual basemaps for projects based on railway and station features.
• Analyzing urban and regional transport networks based on the included rail and tram infrastructure.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
• Explicitly includes railway lines, tram tracks, and stations as described.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, but remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org)

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:51:45.787854; freshness should be verified.

Geography

El Salvador