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Description
OpenStreetMap data for health facilities in Gabon, including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists. The dataset is an export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and was last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote ones.
Use Cases
Analyze service access based on the geographic distribution of hospitals and clinics.
Plan emergency response routes based on the locations of healthcare amenities.
Map healthcare coverage gaps by comparing facility locations against population data.
Strengths
Includes multiple facility types such as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Explicitly 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 being incomplete.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via tags for `amenity` or `healthcare`.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 09:47:57.146256; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Gabon
Data is crowd-sourced; cross-checking critical decisions with local field knowledge is recommended.