Health Facilities in Macao, China from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features in the Macao Special Administrative Region of China tagged as healthcare facilities. The dataset includes points of interest matching tags for amenities like hospitals, clinics, doctors, dentists, and pharmacies. It was exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-03 03.

Use Cases

• Map healthcare facility density and distribution based on geospatial coordinates and amenity tags.
• Analyze facility types and specializations based on the healthcare and healthcare:speciality attributes.
• Assess multilingual naming conventions for facilities using the name, name:en, name:zh, and name:pt fields.
• Study facility capacity and operator types using the capacity:persons and operator:type attributes.

Strengths

• Data is structured with multiple descriptive attributes, including name, address, and speciality fields.
• Available in five common geospatial file formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML).
• Published under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), allowing for sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• 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 healthcare and amenity tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:12:43.023026; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Macao Special Administrative Region, China