Education Facilities in French Southern and Antarctic Territories from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for educational amenities and buildings in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The dataset includes attributes such as name, address, capacity, and operator type, and is available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage and GeoJSON. It was last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping the distribution of schools and universities based on the amenity and building tags
• Analyzing facility capacity for regional planning based on the capacity:persons attribute
• Linking educational infrastructure to settlements using the addr:full and addr:city fields
• Validating and contributing to OpenStreetMap data for the region based on the source attribute

Strengths

• Data is derived from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, which suggests community validation
• Includes multiple name fields (name, name:en, name:fr) for international use
• Available in five common geospatial formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML) for flexibility

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions in remote areas

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific amenity and building tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:30:44.094622; freshness should be verified

Geography

French Southern and Antarctic Territories