Education Facilities in Ghana from OpenStreetMap

Ghana's education facilities, including schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities, are mapped from OpenStreetMap. The data is compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically better mapped than remote ones.

Use Cases

• Map school access and catchment areas based on facility locations.
• Plan education resource allocation based on the distribution of schools and universities.
• Analyze the density of educational amenities for urban development studies.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Derived from a well-known collaborative mapping source, OpenStreetMap.
• Explicitly includes schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:24:52.367794; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ghana