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Description
A 2026 export from OpenStreetMap contains cultural and historic places across Costa Rica. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. It was compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and is useful for heritage protection, cultural mapping, and tourism context.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage density for protection planning based on the described historic and heritage site tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for regional development.
Create cultural tourism guides or applications using the geospatial locations of theatres and places of worship.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), allowing for sharing and adaptation.
Limitations
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.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 11:51:49.154422; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Costa Rica
Data is provided under the ODbL license, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.