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Description
Belarus cultural and historic places exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, or `heritage` keys. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on OSM `historic` and `heritage` tags.
Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on OSM `tourism` and `amenity` tags.
Create cultural resource inventories for urban planning based on the described place types.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
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.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 01:24:34.970267; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Belarus
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.