Turkey Railway Infrastructure: OpenStreetMap Stations and Tracks

Turkey railway infrastructure data exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. The dataset captures geospatial features specifically tagged as 'rail' or 'station' across the entire country.

Use Cases

• Visualizing national rail networks using the 'railway' and 'layer' tags
• Geocoding stations using 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' attributes
• Analyzing infrastructure management patterns via the 'operator:type' field

Strengths

• Available in four geospatial formats including SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML
• Includes multilingual name tags for English and Turkish (name:en, name:tr)
• Provides elevation data via the 'ele' attribute for 3D mapping

Limitations

• Crowdsourced nature may lead to incomplete 'operator:type' or 'ele' fields in rural areas
• Spatial accuracy is dependent on individual OpenStreetMap contributor precision

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Exported via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) tools

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Turkey