Viet Nam Railways: OpenStreetMap Infrastructure and Station Data

Vietnam's railway tracks and stations are documented in this geospatial export provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. It captures point and line features specifically tagged as 'rail' or 'station' along with metadata such as operator types and elevation.

Use Cases

• Visualizing national rail networks using 'railway' line geometries
• Geocoding railway stations using 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' attributes
• Analyzing infrastructure elevation profiles using the 'ele' field

Strengths

• Available in SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML formats
• Includes bilingual naming in English (name:en) and Vietnamese (name:vi)
• Provides vertical context through 'layer' and 'ele' attributes

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data may have inconsistent attribute density for optional fields like 'operator:type'
• Limited to two specific OSM tags, excluding broader rail infrastructure

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data exported via the HOT export tool

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Vietnam