Spain Railway Lines and Stations from OpenStreetMap

Spain's railway infrastructure, including rail lines and stations, extracted from OpenStreetMap. The dataset is an export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-05. Features may include names, elevations, operators, addresses, and source information.

Use Cases

• Map railway network connectivity based on the 'railway' and 'layer' attributes.
• Analyze station distribution and naming conventions based on 'name', 'name:en', and 'name:es' fields.
• Study infrastructure operator types and ownership based on the 'operator:type' attribute.
• Perform geospatial analysis of railway elevation profiles using the 'ele' (elevation) field.
• Integrate railway data with address information for logistics planning using 'addr:full' and 'addr:city'.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, KML, and SHP.
• Features are explicitly defined to match OpenStreetMap tags for 'rail' and 'station'.
• Includes multilingual station names ('name:en', 'name:es') which may support international applications.
• Provides potential elevation ('ele') and layering ('layer') data for 3D or multi-level network analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from OpenStreetMap wiki links.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from OpenStreetMap matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 12:50:32.310007; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spain