Botswana Cultural Places from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports contain cultural and historic places across Botswana, including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project and exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on the `historic` and `heritage` tags.
• Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries based on the `tourism` tag.
• Identify locations of places of worship and community facilities based on the `amenity` tag.
• Create tourism context maps by combining various cultural place types.

Strengths

• Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used, free, and collaborative mapping project.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, but 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 data exported via tags for tourism, amenity, historic, and heritage.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:40:47.374269; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Botswana