Antarctica Education Facilities from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data on education facilities in Antarctica, including schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities tagged via `amenity` or `building`. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) exports this data to HDX, with a last recorded update on 2026-05-10. Completeness of the underlying OpenStreetMap data varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.

Use Cases

• Map school access and proximity based on the geospatial locations of facilities.
• Plan education resource allocation based on the distribution of school types.
• Analyze infrastructure coverage in remote areas based on the described regional completeness variance.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Explicitly includes multiple facility types: schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities.
• Source is a well-known, collaborative mapping project (OpenStreetMap).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• OpenStreetMap completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-10 00:57:20.282504; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Antarctica