Lebanon Railway Infrastructure from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features in Lebanon tagged as railway lines or stations. The dataset likely contains attributes such as names, elevation, operator type, and addresses. It was exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on March 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map railway network connectivity based on railway line features.
• Locate railway stations for facility analysis based on station tags.
• Analyze railway operator types based on the operator:type attribute.
• Visualize railway elevation profiles based on the ele attribute.
• Cross-reference station names in Arabic and English based on name:ar and name:en fields.

Strengths

• Data includes multilingual station names (English and Arabic).
• Attributes suggest detailed feature properties like elevation and operator type.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, 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).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap data matching specific railway tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 11:51:40.163240

Geography

Lebanon