Tuvalu Railway Infrastructure: OpenStreetMap Geospatial Export

Geospatial railway features for Tuvalu including 'rail' and 'station' tags exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. The collection provides 10 attribute fields such as elevation and operator type across multiple GIS formats including SHP and GeoJSON.

Use Cases

• Mapping transit nodes using the 'railway' classification and geometry fields
• Analyzing vertical positioning of infrastructure using the 'ele' elevation field
• Localizing features within administrative boundaries using 'addr:city' and 'addr:full'

Strengths

• Available in four standard GIS formats (SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, KML)
• Includes specific Tuvaluan language tags via 'name:tvl'
• Features standardized OSM attributes like 'operator:type' and 'layer'

Limitations

• Extremely limited record count due to the absence of a national rail network
• Potential for tagging errors or misclassifications inherent to crowdsourced data
• Geographic scope is restricted to the small land area of Tuvalu

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial digitization

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Tuvalu