Tanzania Education Facilities: Geospatial OSM Data for Schools and Universities

Tanzania geospatial education facility data exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. It maps kindergartens, schools, colleges, and universities across the country using crowdsourced geographic features.

Use Cases

• Spatial clustering analysis of schools using the amenity and building tags
• Capacity planning for regional education based on the capacity:persons attribute
• Categorization of institutional management using the operator:type field

Strengths

• Available in four geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, GPKG, KML)
• Includes Swahili and English name variants
• Categorized by specific amenity types like 'college' and 'kindergarten'

Limitations

• Crowdsourced nature leads to potential label noise
• Inconsistent population of the capacity:persons field
• Geographic bias toward areas with active OSM mapping communities

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial mapping and volunteer digitization

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Tanzania