U.S. Virgin Islands Railways: OpenStreetMap Infrastructure Export

This geospatial dataset captures railway tracks and stations across the United States Virgin Islands, curated by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Updated in March 2026, the collection provides standardized OpenStreetMap features including names, elevation data, and operator types.

Use Cases

• Visualizing transit networks by filtering the 'railway' column for stations versus tracks
• Assessing infrastructure elevation profiles using the 'ele' attribute
• Geocoding railway facilities using 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' fields

Strengths

• Available in four standard GIS formats including GeoJSON and KML
• Includes vertical positioning data via 'ele' and 'layer' tags
• Humanitarian-focused export from the HOT organization

Limitations

• Extremely small sample size due to the limited extent of rail infrastructure in the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Crowdsourced data source may lead to inconsistent attribute population for 'addr:full'

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial contributions exported via the HOT platform.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

United States Virgin Islands