Turkey Health Facilities: OpenStreetMap Geospatial Infrastructure Data

Geospatial point and polygon data of health facilities across Turkey, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. The dataset captures locations tagged as hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, and doctors' offices along with administrative and capacity details.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional healthcare density by grouping 'amenity' types by 'addr:city'
• Identifying specialized medical services using the 'healthcare:speciality' attribute
• Planning emergency response logistics based on 'capacity:persons' and 'building' footprints

Strengths

• Multi-language support with 'name:en' and 'name:tr' fields
• Includes 'healthcare:speciality' for granular facility classification
• Available in four GIS-ready formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML

Limitations

• Crowdsourced nature leads to potential attribute sparsity in fields like 'capacity:persons'
• Geographic bias towards areas with active OSM mapping communities

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial tagging and HOT export

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Turkey