Saudi Arabia Education Facilities (OpenStreetMap Export)

OpenStreetMap features in Saudi Arabia tagged as 'kindergarten', 'school', 'college', or 'university'. The dataset is an export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-03-03. Features likely contain attributes such as name, address, capacity, and operator type.

Use Cases

• Map the distribution of educational institutions based on amenity and building tags.
• Analyze facility capacity and operator types for resource planning.
• Geocode addresses of schools and universities for location-based services.
• Validate and update OpenStreetMap data for educational amenities in Saudi Arabia.

Strengths

• Covers multiple education levels from kindergarten to university.
• Includes multilingual name attributes (English and Arabic).
• Provides multiple geospatial file formats (GeoPackage, GeoJSON, SHP, KML).
• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project.

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 (2026-03-03).

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:30:40.437686

Geography

Saudi Arabia