South African Education Facilities from OpenStreetMap, Including Multilingual Names

OpenStreetMap exports for South Africa include all features tagged as kindergartens, schools, colleges, or universities. The dataset likely contains attributes such as name, address, capacity, and names in multiple South African languages. It was last updated on 2026-03-03 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Map the distribution of educational institutions based on the geospatial location data.
• Analyze facility capacity and operator types based on the capacity:persons and operator:type attributes.
• Study multilingual naming conventions for facilities using the name:af, name:xh, name:zu, and other language-specific fields.

Strengths

• Includes names in at least 10 different South African languages, suggesting multilingual coverage.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML) for flexibility.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-03-03 09:10:13.808874; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from OpenStreetMap matching specific amenity and building tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03-03

Geography

South Africa