Turkey Education Facilities: Geospatial OSM Export of Schools and Universities

Turkey education infrastructure data extracted from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. It includes point and polygon features for kindergartens, schools, colleges, and universities across the country. The data is provided in multiple geospatial formats for humanitarian and planning purposes.

Use Cases

• Mapping educational infrastructure density using the addr:city and addr:full columns
• Analyzing the distribution of public vs private institutions via the operator:type field
• Estimating regional student capacity using the capacity:persons attribute

Strengths

• Available in four geospatial formats including SHP, GEOJSON, GPKG, and KML
• Includes multilingual labels in Turkish (name:tr) and English (name:en)
• Contains specific humanitarian tags like operator:type and capacity:persons

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data may contain mapping errors or omissions compared to official registries
• The capacity:persons field is often sparsely populated in OSM exports
• Geographic bias toward urban areas with higher contributor density

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial mapping and automated export

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Turkey