Health Facilities in Iran from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide a geospatial inventory of healthcare amenities across Iran. The dataset includes features tagged as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, dentists, and doctors, with attributes like name, address, capacity, and specialty. It was last updated on 2026-03-17 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare facility locations and density based on geospatial coordinates.
• Analyzing facility types and specializations based on the 'healthcare' and 'amenity' tags.
• Assessing potential service capacity based on the 'capacity:persons' attribute.
• Studying the distribution of public versus private operators based on the 'operator:type' field.

Strengths

• Includes multiple name attributes (English, Farsi) for localization.
• Provides 13 listed attributes covering location, type, capacity, and source.
• Available in four common geospatial file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-03 17).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

OpenStreetMap data export filtered for healthcare-related tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 12:48:42.275812

Geography

Iran