Education Facilities in Svalbard and Jan Mayen from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, last updated 2026-03-03. The dataset contains mapped features for educational amenities like kindergartens, schools, colleges, and universities. It was exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and includes attributes such as name, address, capacity, and operator type.

Use Cases

• Map the distribution of educational facilities based on the amenity and building tags.
• Analyze facility capacity and operator types based on the capacity:persons and operator:type attributes.
• Geocode and validate addresses for educational institutions using the addr:full and addr:city fields.
• Study multilingual naming conventions for locations using the name, name:en, and name:no fields.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geospatial file formats: GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML.
• Attributes are defined with links to the OpenStreetMap wiki for semantic clarity.
• Data is sourced from a collaborative, open mapping project (OpenStreetMap).

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 10:44:31.579329; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03-03 10:44:31.579329

Geography

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands