Hong Kong Education Facility Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for educational institutions in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. The dataset includes facilities tagged as kindergartens, schools, colleges, or universities, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-03-03.

Use Cases

• Map school locations and catchment areas based on the geospatial coordinates.
• Analyze the distribution of public versus private institutions based on the operator:type attribute.
• Study multilingual naming conventions for facilities using the name, name:en, and name:zh fields.
• Estimate service capacity for facilities where the capacity:persons attribute is populated.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple standard geospatial formats including GeoJSON, SHP, and KML.
• Includes multilingual naming attributes (name, name:en, name:zh) for facility identification.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-03-03 09:07:01.914604.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from linked OpenStreetMap wiki pages.
• Data may reflect geographic and contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap's crowdsourced nature.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific amenity and building tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:07:01.914604; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region