Rwanda Railways and Stations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for railway tracks and stations across Rwanda, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The dataset includes attributes like multilingual names, elevation, operator details, and addresses. It was last updated on March 3, 2026, and is available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Map railway network connectivity based on the 'railway' and 'layer' attributes.
• Identify station locations and names for public transit planning based on the 'name' and 'addr:full' fields.
• Analyze multilingual place names for cultural or linguistic studies based on the 'name:en', 'name:fr', 'name:rw', and 'name:sw' columns.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual station names in English, French, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili.
• Provides geospatial data in four common formats: GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, and KML.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative, open-source mapping project.

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 date is in the future (2026-03-03).

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 09:52:08.723196

Geography

Rwanda