Education Facilities in the Dominican Republic from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap volunteer mappers have tagged schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities across the Dominican Republic. Coverage likely reflects mapper activity, with urban areas usually well represented and remote areas potentially sparse. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides this data under an ODbL-1.0 license, last updated on 2026-06-27.

Use Cases

• Map school access based on the geolocated facility data.
• Plan education infrastructure development using the tagged facility types.
• Allocate resources by analyzing the spatial distribution of schools and universities.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• The dataset is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Coverage may be biased towards urban areas where volunteer mappers have been active.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping via tagging of `amenity` or `building` keys.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 05:05:20.892833; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dominican Republic