Armenia Cultural Places from OpenStreetMap for Heritage Mapping

OpenStreetMap data for Armenia includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The dataset is exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-13. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more thoroughly mapped than remote areas.

Use Cases

• Map cultural tourism infrastructure based on the included tourism and amenity tags.
• Identify and monitor historic sites for protection efforts based on the historic and heritage tags.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of cultural assets like museums and monuments for regional planning.
• Create basemaps or contextual layers for tourism applications using the geospatial point data.

Strengths

• Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, and monuments.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON) for flexibility.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a large collaborative mapping project with global coverage.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 19:56:21.314173; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Armenia