Education Facilities of South Sudan from OpenStreetMap

South Sudan's education facilities, including schools, kindergartens, colleges, and universities, tagged via OpenStreetMap's `amenity` or `building` keys. The data was contributed by volunteer mappers and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) on HDX. It was last updated on 2026-06-22.

Use Cases

• Map school access for planning based on facility locations mentioned in the description
• Plan education resource allocation based on the distribution of facilities
• Analyze urban-rural disparities in education infrastructure based on coverage notes

Strengths

• Data includes multiple facility types (schools, kindergartens, colleges, universities)
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, SHP, KML, GEOJSON, JSON)
• Derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with urban areas likely better represented than remote areas
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping via OpenStreetMap's collaborative platform

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 19:03:49.989134

Geography

South Sudan