Myanmar Railways: Geospatial Infrastructure with Multilingual Station Names

Supplying geospatial features of Myanmar's railway infrastructure, including tracks and stations, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The data was last updated in March 2026 and covers the entire national territory of Myanmar.

Use Cases

• Visualizing national transport networks using the 'railway' and 'name' attributes
• Analyzing station density within specific municipalities using the 'addr:city' field
• Topographic infrastructure modeling utilizing the 'ele' (elevation) attribute

Strengths

• Multilingual support with specific name:en and name:my tags for local and international use
• Available in four GIS-ready formats: SHP, GeoJSON, Geopackage, and KML
• Standardized OpenStreetMap tagging schema (railway=rail or railway=station)

Limitations

• Crowdsourced nature means positional accuracy is dependent on the quality of satellite imagery used by contributors
• The 'operator:type' field may be null for many minor or abandoned rail segments

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial digitization and tagging via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) export tool

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Myanmar