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Description
India's health facilities, including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists, are mapped from OpenStreetMap. The data is contributed by volunteers and maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, with a last update recorded in May 2026. Completeness likely varies by region, with urban areas typically more thoroughly mapped than remote locations.
Use Cases
Analyze healthcare service access based on facility locations and types.
Plan emergency response routes based on the distribution of hospitals and clinics.
Map healthcare coverage gaps based on the density of amenities like pharmacies and dentists.
Strengths
Includes multiple facility types such as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Last updated on 2026-05-15 11:19:08.332427.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping via OpenStreetMap tags for amenity and healthcare.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 11:19:08.332427.
Geography
India
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.