Turkey Points of Interest: Bilingual Infrastructure and Capacity Metrics

Turkey geospatial points of interest (POI) covering amenities, shops, and tourism sites were exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in March 2026. The data includes specific infrastructure attributes such as bed counts and room numbers for relevant facilities across the country.

Use Cases

• Assessing emergency shelter or medical capacity using the beds and rooms columns.
• Mapping commercial density and retail distribution using the shop and amenity tags.
• Developing localized navigation or directory services using name:tr, name:en, and addr:full fields.

Strengths

• Includes bilingual labels in both English (name:en) and Turkish (name:tr)
• Available in four GIS-ready formats: SHP, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, and KML
• Contains specific facility attributes like opening_hours and capacity data

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data quality varies significantly between high-density urban areas and remote rural regions
• Total record count and file size are not explicitly defined in the source metadata
• Attribute density is inconsistent, as fields like beds or rooms are often null for many POIs

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

crowdsourced

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Turkey