Railway And Station Features For Sao Tome And Principe From OpenStreetMap

Sao Tome and Principe's railway infrastructure data, exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes features tagged as 'rail' or 'station' and may contain attributes like name, elevation, operator type, and address details. It was published by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map railway network connectivity based on 'railway' tag and geometry.
• Identify station locations and their attributes based on 'name' and 'addr:full' fields.
• Analyze infrastructure elevation profiles based on the 'ele' (elevation) attribute.
• Assess operational management based on the 'operator:type' field.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and openly licensed mapping project.
• Features multiple export formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and Shapefile for flexibility.
• Includes potential multilingual naming with 'name:en' and 'name:pt' attributes.

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.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is March 3, 2026.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:29:25.138802

Geography

Sao Tome and Principe