Cultural and Historic Places of Myanmar from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions identify cultural and historic places across Myanmar, including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) published this dataset on HDX, last updated on 2026-06-19. Coverage likely reflects areas where volunteer mappers have been active, with urban areas typically better represented than remote ones.

Use Cases

• Map cultural assets for heritage protection planning based on the described tourism and historic tags.
• Analyze the distribution of cultural sites for tourism context and infrastructure development.
• Cross-reference volunteer-mapped points with local field knowledge for validation and gap analysis.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map with a global contributor base.
• Includes multiple feature types (museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, historic sites) tagged via specific OpenStreetMap keys.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with urban areas likely well-represented and remote areas potentially 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 for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed geographic data tagged with tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-19 15:25:14.732907; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Myanmar