South Africa Health Facility Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for South Africa include all features tagged as healthcare facilities, such as clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, which was last updated on March 3, 2026. Features may have attributes like name, address, operator type, and capacity.

Use Cases

• Map the distribution of healthcare facilities based on location and type attributes.
• Analyze facility capacity and operator types for resource planning.
• Identify multilingual facility names for localization and community outreach.

Strengths

• Includes multiple name fields in South African languages (e.g., name:af, name:xh, name:zu).
• Data is available in five common geospatial formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML).
• Features are defined by a clear tagging logic (healthcare or specific amenity tags).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific healthcare and amenity tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:15:24.969417; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Africa