Cultural and Historic Places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from OpenStreetMap

A 2026-06-19 snapshot of cultural and historic places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sourced from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged by volunteer mappers. It is published by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) under the ODbL license.

Use Cases

• Mapping cultural heritage assets for protection planning based on tagged historic sites.
• Analyzing the distribution of tourism amenities for infrastructure development based on amenity and tourism tags.
• Creating cultural resource inventories for academic or governmental use based on the described place types.
• Cross-referencing field knowledge with community-mapped data for validation purposes as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
• Includes multiple cultural place types: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, KML, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven; urban areas are likely well-represented while remote areas may be sparse, as noted in the description.
• 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 mapping and collaborative contributions, exported via the HDX grid.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 2026-06-19.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-19 09:43:36.044088

Geography

The Democratic Republic of the Congo