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Description
OpenStreetMap exports from 2026-05-05 include all features tagged as healthcare amenities in Peru. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team compiled this dataset, which likely contains points for hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and doctors' offices. Features may have attributes such as name, address, capacity, operator type, and healthcare specialty.
Use Cases
Mapping healthcare facility locations based on geospatial coordinates.
Analyzing facility types and specialties based on the healthcare and amenity tags.
Assessing healthcare capacity and operator types for resource planning.
Studying multilingual naming conventions based on name tags in Spanish, English, Quechua, Aymara, and Shipibo-Conibo.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
Includes multilingual name fields (name:es, name:en, name:qu, name:ay, name:cni) which suggest cultural and linguistic coverage.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, GARMIN IMG, SHP, GEOJSON) for interoperability.
Limitations
Row count and dataset size are 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 timestamp is 2026-05-05 19:49:39.241056.
Provenance
Source
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Collection Method
Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific healthcare tags.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-05 19:49:39.241056.
Geography
Peru
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike conditions.