Education Facilities in the Netherlands from OpenStreetMap

An OpenStreetMap export of education facilities across the Netherlands, including schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities. The data is sourced from the volunteer-built OSM project and last updated on 2026-05-14. It is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in multiple geospatial file formats.

Use Cases

• Map school accessibility based on facility locations.
• Plan education resource allocation based on the distribution of schools and universities.
• Analyze the density of educational infrastructure across different regions.

Strengths

• Covers multiple facility types: schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON.
• Data is licensed under the ODbL-1.0 open license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via OSM tags `amenity` and `building`.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 21:45:52.071709; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Netherlands