Tanzania Railways: Rails and Stations with Swahili Names

Tanzania railway infrastructure data exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. These geospatial records identify tracks and stations across the country using specific 'railway' tags.

Use Cases

• Mapping transport networks using the 'railway' tag to distinguish between tracks and stations
• Analyzing regional connectivity by grouping features by 'addr:city'
• Identifying infrastructure management using the 'operator:type' attribute

Strengths

• Available in four geospatial formats including SHP, GeoJSON, and KML
• Includes multilingual name tags for English (name:en) and Swahili (name:sw)
• Provides elevation data via the 'ele' field for topographic context

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data may have inconsistent attribute coverage for fields like 'operator:type'
• Restricted to only two specific railway tags ('rail' and 'station')

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial tagging

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Tanzania