Vanuatu Health Facilities: Multilingual Geospatial Data from HOT

Giving access to geospatial point and polygon data for health infrastructure across Vanuatu, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Updated as of March 2026, it catalogs facilities including hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies with associated metadata. The records include localized naming conventions and operational attributes such as facility capacity and medical specialties.

Use Cases

• Spatial accessibility modeling by calculating distances to 'amenity' types like 'hospital' or 'clinic'
• Disaster response planning using 'capacity:persons' to estimate patient handling limits
• Linguistic mapping of infrastructure using the 'name:bis' (Bislama) and 'name:fr' (French) fields

Strengths

• Trilingual name support including English, French, and Bislama
• Available in four standard geospatial formats: SHP, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, and KML
• Includes granular service tags such as 'healthcare:speciality' and 'operator:type'

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data may contain inconsistent attribute filling across different regions
• Lack of verified government timestamps for individual facility records

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap Contributors

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial mapping and community-led data entry

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Vanuatu