Health Facilities in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands include all features tagged as healthcare facilities, such as hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team maintains this data, which was last updated on March 3, 2026. Features likely contain attributes like name, address, building type, and healthcare specialty.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare service locations based on OpenStreetMap tags like 'healthcare' and 'amenity'
• Analyzing facility types and capacities based on attributes such as 'healthcare:speciality' and 'capacity:persons'
• Geospatial analysis of public health infrastructure in a specific territory based on the geographic scope

Strengths

• Data is derived from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, suggesting community verification.
• Includes multiple export formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
• Covers a specific, well-defined geographic area: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific healthcare-related tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:07:05.372890; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands