Health Facilities in Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for healthcare amenities in the Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands region. The dataset includes facilities tagged as doctors, dentists, clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies, and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-03-03.

Use Cases

• Map healthcare service accessibility based on facility type and location.
• Analyze the distribution of medical specialties based on the healthcare:speciality attribute.
• Assess facility capacity for emergency planning using the capacity:persons field.
• Validate and update OpenStreetMap data for the region based on source attribution.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
• Data is structured with specific OpenStreetMap tags for healthcare and amenity types.
• Contains attributes for address, operator type, and multilingual names (English and Norwegian).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions.

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 09:52:07.802400; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands