Railway Infrastructure of Palestine from OpenStreetMap

Palestine's railway lines, tram tracks, and stations mapped by volunteer contributors to OpenStreetMap. The dataset is useful for transport accessibility analysis and basemap context. It was last updated on 2026-06-22 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Use Cases

• Analyze transport network connectivity based on railway line geometry.
• Assess accessibility to stations for urban planning based on station point locations.
• Create basemap layers for regional mapping projects based on the tagged railway features.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• License is ODbL-1.0, a well-known open data license.

Limitations

• Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active; remote areas may be sparse.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping and collaborative data collection.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 17:24:46.726075

Geography

Palestine