Egypt Health Facilities from OpenStreetMap, 2026 Export
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Description
OpenStreetMap features in Egypt tagged as healthcare facilities, including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists. The dataset is an export from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-03-03. Features may have attributes such as name, address, building type, healthcare specialty, and operator type.
Use Cases
Map healthcare facility distribution and density based on geospatial location and facility type.
Analyze healthcare service specialization based on the 'healthcare:speciality' attribute.
Assess facility capacity for planning purposes based on the 'capacity:persons' field.
Validate and enrich facility directories using multilingual name tags ('name:en', 'name:ar').
Strengths
Includes multiple healthcare facility types (doctors, dentist, clinic, hospital, pharmacy) as specified in the description.
Provides multilingual naming ('name:en', 'name:ar') and full address attributes for location context.
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and openly licensed mapping project.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
OpenStreetMap export filtered for features with healthcare-related tags.
Time Range
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Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-03 10:52:30.459466; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Egypt
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.