Health Facilities in Cameroon from OpenStreetMap

Cameroon's health facilities exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists tagged via `amenity` or `healthcare`. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Analyze service access based on the distribution of hospitals and clinics.
• Plan emergency response routes using the geospatial locations of healthcare facilities.
• Map healthcare gaps by comparing facility density against population data.
• Validate and augment existing health facility registries with crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data.

Strengths

• Covers multiple facility types including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:35:43.647796; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cameroon