Metro Station Locations for Washington D.C.

Metro Stations (regional) contains point locations for public transit stations in Washington D.C., created by the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Station platform centroids were identified from orthophotography and planimetric data, then digitized from a snapbase. The data is stored in Maryland State Plane coordinates NAD 83 meters.

Use Cases

• Map station locations using geographic coordinates for spatial analysis of transit networks.
• Analyze the distribution of station features like parapet or canopy presence across the D.C. region.
• Integrate station point data with other D.C. GIS layers for urban planning and accessibility studies.
• Serve station locations via web services (WMS, GeoJSON) for interactive mapping applications.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats including GeoJSON, KML, and CSV.
• Maintained by the authoritative D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).
• Coordinates are stored in a consistent, projected coordinate system (Maryland State Plane NAD 83 meters).

Limitations

• The specific number of station records (rows) and their attributes (columns) is not documented.
• Data collection method (heads-up digitizing from imagery) may introduce minor positional inaccuracies.
• The dataset's temporal coverage and update history beyond the last metadata update are unclear.

Provenance

Source

DC Geographic Information System (DC GIS) for the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

Collection Method

Platform centroids were identified from orthophotography and planimetric data, then heads-up digitized from a snapbase.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated on 2025-02-05.

Geography

Washington D.C. (District of Columbia) region.