Cultural and Historic Places of Nigeria from OpenStreetMap

Cultural Places of Nigeria is a geospatial dataset of museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The data is sourced from OpenStreetMap via volunteer mapping and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-06-25.

Use Cases

• Map cultural assets for heritage protection planning based on tagged historic and heritage sites.
• Analyze the distribution of tourism infrastructure like museums and galleries for economic development.
• Create cultural context layers for GIS applications using the geospatial features of monuments and places of worship.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes features tagged with multiple relevant keys: tourism, amenity, historic, and heritage.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with urban areas likely well-represented and remote areas sparse, reflecting volunteer mapper activity.
• 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-25 22:57:23.122197

Geography

Nigeria