Costa Rica Points of Interest from OpenStreetMap, 2026 Export

OpenStreetMap exports provide public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks for Costa Rica. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically better mapped than remote locations.

Use Cases

• Create general POI reference maps based on the described amenity, shop, tourism, and man_made tags.
• Conduct urban analysis of service distribution based on the public-facing amenities and shops data.
• Enrich basemap detail for navigation or tourism apps using the landmark and tourist attraction data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
• Includes multiple common OSM feature tags: amenity, shop, tourism, and man_made.
• Available in several geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, and JSON.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:52:37.926848; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Costa Rica