Ethiopia Railway Network and Stations from OpenStreetMap

Ethiopia Railways is a geospatial dataset from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) containing OpenStreetMap features for railway lines and stations in Ethiopia. The dataset includes attributes such as name, elevation, operator type, and multilingual station names. It was last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping railway network connectivity based on the 'railway' and 'layer' attributes.
• Analyzing station locations and multilingual naming conventions based on the 'name', 'name:en', and other language-specific name fields.
• Modeling infrastructure elevation profiles based on the 'ele' (elevation) attribute.
• Identifying railway operators and ownership structures based on the 'operator:type' attribute.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual station names in languages like Amharic, Somali, and Tigrinya, as indicated by the 'name:am', 'name:so', and 'name:ti' fields.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative, open-source mapping project.

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 OpenStreetMap features matching tags['railway'] IN ('rail','station').

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:44:52.659963

Geography

Ethiopia