Mexico Health Facilities from OpenStreetMap, Including Clinics and Pharmacies

OpenStreetMap exports provide a community-mapped inventory of health facilities across Mexico. The dataset includes features tagged as hospitals, clinics, doctors, dentists, and pharmacies, with attributes like name, address, and operator type. It was last updated on 2026 03 03 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare facility locations and density based on geospatial coordinates.
• Analyzing the distribution of facility types (e.g., clinic vs. hospital) based on the 'amenity' and 'healthcare' tags.
• Assessing potential service capacity using the 'capacity:persons' attribute where available.
• Identifying facility operators and specialties using the 'operator:type' and 'healthcare:speciality' fields.

Strengths

• Includes multiple facility types defined by OpenStreetMap tagging schema: doctors, dentist, clinic, hospital, pharmacy.
• Provides multiple geospatial file formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, KML.
• Contains multilingual name attributes ('name:en', 'name:es') for some entries.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap's volunteer-driven collection.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Community-sourced mapping and export from OpenStreetMap.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:44:43.998351; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mexico