Railway Features from OpenStreetMap for Reunion Island

Reunion Island's railway infrastructure, including rail lines and stations, extracted from OpenStreetMap. The dataset is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-03-03. Features likely contain attributes such as name, elevation, operator type, and address details.

Use Cases

• Map railway network connectivity based on the 'railway' feature type attribute.
• Geolocate railway stations for accessibility studies using the 'name' and address attributes.
• Analyze infrastructure layering and elevation using the 'layer' and 'ele' (elevation) columns.
• Identify operating entities for railway features based on the 'operator:type' attribute.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, offering community-verified features.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, and KML.
• Includes multilingual feature names ('name:en', 'name:fr') for international use cases.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-03-03 09:06:40.926636; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific railway tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:06:40.926636

Geography

Reunion Island