Algeria's Rail & Urban Transit

Name: Algeria's Rail & Urban Transit
Creator: GeoAlgeria
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

@geoalgeria/ferroviaire

692 rail and urban-transit nodes across 50 wilayas — 427 rail, 190 tram, 41 metro, 24 aerial-tramway and 10 gondola — bilingual FR/AR, with operator (SNTF/SETRAM/SEMA), line membership and wilaya/commune linkage. A Wikidata (CC0) + OpenStreetMap (ODbL) composite.

692 stations & stopsView on map npm

Source: Wikidata (CC0) + OpenStreetMap (ODbL) — operators SNTF, SETRAM, SEMA

Install

npm install @geoalgeria/ferroviaire

Quick example

import ferroviaire from "@geoalgeria/ferroviaire";

const all = ferroviaire.stations();               // 692 nodes
const trams = ferroviaire.stationsByType("tram");  // 190 tram stops
const alger = ferroviaire.stationsByWilaya(16);    // rail + metro + tram in Algiers

API reference

Name	Signature	Description
`stations`	`stations(): Station[]`	All 692 transit nodes.
`stationById`	`stationById(id): Station \| null`	One node by id.
`stationsByType`	`stationsByType(type): Station[]`	Nodes of a type ("rail" \| "tram" \| "metro" \| "aerial_tram" \| "gondola").
`stationsByWilaya`	`stationsByWilaya(code): Station[]`	Nodes in a wilaya (numeric or zero-padded code).
`metadata`	`metadata(): Metadata`	Package metadata (counts by type/source/operator, licences).

Record shape

Field	Type	Nullable	Description
`id`	`string`	—	Stable id, `{wilaya}-{seq}` (e.g. "16-021").
`name`	`string`	yes	Best available name (FR preferred).
`name_fr`	`string`	yes	French / Latin-script name.
`name_ar`	`string`	yes	Arabic name.
`type`	`"rail" \| "tram" \| "metro" \| "aerial_tram" \| "gondola"`	—	Transit node kind.
`line`	`string`	yes	Line membership where known.
`operator`	`string`	yes	SNTF (rail) / SETRAM (tram) / SEMA (metro).
`network`	`string`	yes	Tram city network / “Métro d'Alger”.
`wilaya_code`	`string`	—	Zero-padded ("01".."69").
`commune`	`string`	yes	Commune (nearest-centroid join).
`commune_code`	`number`	yes	geoalgeria commune code.
`lat`	`number`	—	Latitude (WGS84).
`lng`	`number`	—	Longitude (WGS84).
`geo_precision`	`"exact"`	—	Coordinates are exact points.
`source`	`"wikidata" \| "wikidata+osm" \| "osm"`	—	Provenance (OSM matched within ~150 m).
`wikidata`	`string`	yes	Wikidata QID.
`osm_id`	`string`	yes	OSM element id.

Formats

JSONCSVGEOJSONTS

The npm package ships JSON. Other formats are available in each GitHub Release.

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