Hong Kong Health Facilities from OpenStreetMap, Including Clinics and Pharmacies

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides a geospatial dataset of health facilities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. The data includes features tagged as healthcare or specific amenities like doctors, dentists, clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-03.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare facility locations based on OpenStreetMap geospatial tags.
• Analyzing facility types and specialities based on the healthcare:speciality attribute.
• Assessing facility capacity for planning purposes based on the capacity:persons field.
• Geocoding addresses for service delivery based on the addr:full and addr:city attributes.

Strengths

• Includes multiple name attributes (name, name:en, name:zh) for localization.
• Available in five common geospatial file formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML).
• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

OpenStreetMap export based on tags for healthcare and specific amenities.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:12:41.321026; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region