Health Facilities in the Solomon Islands from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap provides a crowdsourced map of health facilities in the Solomon Islands. The data includes locations tagged as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote ones.

Use Cases

• Analyze healthcare service access based on facility type and location.
• Plan emergency response routes based on the distribution of hospitals and clinics.
• Map gaps in healthcare coverage by comparing facility density to population data.

Strengths

• Covers multiple facility types including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data completeness varies by region, with remote areas potentially being incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Crowdsourced mapping by volunteers.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:45:47.297015; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Solomon Islands