Health Facilities in Czechia from OpenStreetMap

An OpenStreetMap export of health facilities in Czechia, including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists. The data is contributed by volunteers and exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, with a last recorded update in May 2026. Completeness likely varies, with urban areas often better mapped than remote regions.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic access to healthcare services based on facility types and locations.
• Map gaps in healthcare coverage for underserved communities based on facility distribution.
• Plan emergency response logistics based on the locations of hospitals and clinics.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via tags for `amenity` or `healthcare`.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:22:34.824123; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Czechia