Norwegian Railway Features and Stations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Norway includes all features tagged as 'rail' or 'station'. The dataset is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-03-03. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, SHP, and GeoPackage.

Use Cases

• Mapping railway network topology based on the 'railway' tag.
• Geocoding station locations based on 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' attributes.
• Analyzing multilingual station naming conventions based on 'name', 'name:en', 'name:no', and 'name:se' fields.
• Visualizing vertical layering of rail infrastructure based on the 'layer' and 'ele' (elevation) attributes.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes multilingual name attributes ('name:en', 'name:no', 'name:se') for internationalization.
• Available in four common geospatial 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 timestamp is 2026-03-03 09:27:03.455290.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export from the OpenStreetMap database, filtered for features where tags['railway'] IN ('rail','station').

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:27:03.455290.

Geography

Norway