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Description
Cameroon's cultural and historic places exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites, tagged via OSM keys for tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection planning based on OSM tags like `historic` and `heritage`.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for regional development.
Identify places of worship and monuments for cultural mapping projects.
Cross-reference OSM cultural data with local field knowledge for validation.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, and monuments.
Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
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 data exported via OSM tags for tourism, amenity, historic, and heritage.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 11:38:06.026009; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Cameroon
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.