Education Facilities in French Guiana from OpenStreetMap

French Guiana's education facilities exported from OpenStreetMap. It includes schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities tagged via `amenity` or `building` keys. The data was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Map school access and catchment areas based on facility locations.
• Plan educational resource allocation based on the distribution of schools and universities.
• Analyze the completeness of education infrastructure mapping in urban versus remote areas.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the source description.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via tags for `amenity` and `building`.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 15:51:02.712372.

Geography

French Guiana