Railway Infrastructure in Peru from OpenStreetMap

Peru's railway network features, including rail lines and stations, exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset likely contains attributes such as names, elevations, operators, and addresses. It was created by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-05-05.

Use Cases

• Map railway network coverage based on the 'railway' tag.
• Analyze station naming conventions based on multilingual name attributes (name, name:en, name:es, name:qu, name:ay, name:cni).
• Assess infrastructure elevation profiles based on the 'ele' (elevation) attribute.
• Identify railway operators based on the 'operator:type' attribute.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping platform.
• Attributes include multilingual station names, which may support linguistic analysis.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, GARMIN IMG, SHP, GEOJSON).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap features matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 19:49:46.293515; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Peru