Education Facilities of Colombia from OpenStreetMap for Access Mapping

OpenStreetMap data tags schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities across Colombia via `amenity` or `building` keys. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides this export, last updated on 2026-06-19. Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity, with urban areas likely well-represented and remote areas potentially sparse.

Use Cases

• Mapping school access and proximity based on the geospatial locations of tagged facilities.
• Planning education resource allocation based on the distribution of schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities.
• Analyzing urban-rural disparities in education infrastructure based on the described coverage bias.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple facility types: schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, HTML, KML, GEOJSON, JSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven; urban areas are usually 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 and collaborative contribution.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-19 10:11:27.617555.

Geography

Colombia