Education Facilities in Belgium from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities across Belgium. The dataset is compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated in May 2026. It is sourced from a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.

Use Cases

• Map school accessibility based on facility locations.
• Plan educational resource allocation based on the distribution of schools and universities.
• Analyze the density of education facilities for regional development studies.

Strengths

• Covers multiple education facility types: schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via tags for `amenity` or `building`.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 00:24:24.601999; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Belgium