Cook Islands Cultural and Historic Places from OpenStreetMap

Cook Islands 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`. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team under the ODbL-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping cultural heritage assets for protection based on the described historic and heritage tags.
• Analyzing tourism infrastructure distribution based on the described tourism and amenity tags.
• Creating cultural context layers for regional planning based on the described places of worship and monuments.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple cultural place types as described: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON, and HTML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• OpenStreetMap completeness varies by region; remote areas of the Cook Islands may be incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and export via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:43:21.310243; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cook Islands