Morocco Health Facilities: Trilingual Geospatial Data from OpenStreetMap
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Description
Geospatial records of medical infrastructure in Morocco exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. The data captures points and polygons representing clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, and specialized medical centers across the country.
Use Cases
Spatial accessibility modeling using the amenity and healthcare tags to locate nearest emergency services
Regional health capacity assessment by aggregating the capacity:persons field across provinces
Linguistic mapping and localization using name:ar and name:ber attributes
Strengths
Trilingual support with name fields for Arabic, Berber, and English
Multiple export formats including SHP, KML, and GeoPackage
Specific categorization via healthcare:speciality and operator:type tags
Limitations
Crowdsourced data may contain positional inaccuracies or missing rural facilities
Inconsistent population of the capacity:persons attribute
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Crowdsourced geospatial contributions and community mapping
Freshness
Updated as of March 2026.
Geography
Morocco
Distributed under the Open Database License (ODbL); users must credit OpenStreetMap contributors.