Education Facilities in Benin from OpenStreetMap

Benin's education facilities, including schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities, tagged via OpenStreetMap's `amenity` or `building` keys. The data is sourced from the free, collaborative OpenStreetMap project and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-06-26.

Use Cases

• Map school access and coverage based on the location of tagged facilities.
• Plan education infrastructure development based on the distribution of schools and universities.
• Allocate educational resources by analyzing the spatial density of facilities.
• Cross-reference volunteer-mapped facility data with local field knowledge for validation.

Strengths

• Covers multiple facility types: schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, KML, GEOJSON.
• Data is licensed under the ODbL-1.0, a recognized open data license.

Limitations

• Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity; urban areas are well-represented while remote areas may be sparse.
• 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 mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-26 01:59:30.542569

Geography

Benin