Bahrain Points of Interest from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks for Bahrain. The data is contributed by volunteers and its completeness varies, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote regions. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) published this export on HDX, last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Create reference basemaps based on tagged amenities and landmarks.
• Analyze urban service distribution based on public-facing amenity locations.
• Identify tourist attractions and landmarks for travel applications.

Strengths

• Covers multiple POI categories via established OSM tagging schemas (amenity, shop, tourism, man_made).
• Available in multiple common geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Published under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), allowing sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap's volunteer-driven mapping.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:05:02.298639; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bahrain