OpenStreetMap Points of Interest for Australia

Australia's public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks exported from OpenStreetMap. The data is compiled by volunteer mappers and exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, with a last update recorded on 2026-05-15. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being more detailed than remote locations.

Use Cases

• General point-of-interest reference for mapping applications based on OSM tags like `amenity` and `tourism`.
• Urban analysis of amenity distribution and accessibility based on categorized public-facing locations.
• Enhancing basemap detail for cartographic projects using the exported geospatial features.

Strengths

• Covers a wide range of POI categories as indicated by the use of four primary OSM tag keys: `amenity`, `shop`, `tourism`, and `man_made`.
• Available in multiple common geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), allowing for sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap, with urban areas likely being more complete than remote regions.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping, exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) grid on HDX.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 05:03:54.281460; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia