Wallis and Futuna Railway Infrastructure: OpenStreetMap Geospatial Export

This geospatial dataset captures railway infrastructure features for the Wallis and Futuna Islands, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Updated in March 2026, the collection includes all features tagged as 'rail' or 'station' within the territory.

Use Cases

• Mapping local transportation infrastructure using the 'railway' and 'name' tags
• Analyzing elevation profiles of transit points using the 'ele' field
• Identifying facility management via the 'operator:type' attribute

Strengths

• Available in four GIS formats including SHP, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, and KML
• Includes elevation data via the 'ele' attribute
• Standardized OpenStreetMap tagging schema allows for cross-region compatibility

Limitations

• Extremely small sample size due to the absence of a national railway system in the target geography
• Data quality depends entirely on volunteer contributions and crowdsourced accuracy

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data export via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Wallis and Futuna Islands