Aruba Cultural Places from OpenStreetMap

A May 2026 export from OpenStreetMap contains cultural and historic places in Aruba. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled features tagged as museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The data is useful for heritage protection, cultural mapping, and tourism context.

Use Cases

• Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on OSM tags like `historic` and `heritage`.
• Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on features tagged with `tourism` and `amenity`.
• Create a cultural inventory for Aruba based on the described categories of museums, galleries, and monuments.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• The dataset is explicitly tagged for cultural and historic features using four specific OSM key schemas.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the description.
• 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 12:02:35.258468; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Aruba