Morocco Railways: Multilingual Infrastructure and Station Data

This geospatial dataset provides railway infrastructure and station locations across Morocco, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Updated in March 2026, the collection includes vector data for rail lines and transit hubs available in six different file formats.

Use Cases

• Mapping national transit networks using the 'railway' and 'name' attributes
• Analyzing urban infrastructure density using 'addr:city' and 'addr:full' columns
• Topographic visualization of rail routes using the 'ele' (elevation) and 'layer' fields

Strengths

• Multilingual support including Arabic (name:ar) and Berber (name:ber) scripts
• Available in 6 formats including SHP, GeoJSON, and KML
• Includes vertical positioning data via 'ele' and 'layer' attributes

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data may result in inconsistent population of optional fields like 'ele' or 'operator:type'
• Excludes other railway-related features not tagged as 'rail' or 'station'

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) platform

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Morocco