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Description
OpenStreetMap exports list cultural and historic places in Cyprus, including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas likely being better mapped than remote ones.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage assets for protection based on the listed historic and heritage tags.
Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on the tourism and amenity tags.
Create cultural context layers for regional planning based on the described places of worship and monuments.
Strengths
Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, which is built by volunteers.
The dataset includes multiple export formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON) for flexibility.
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via defined OSM tags (tourism, amenity, historic, heritage).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 12:03:20.881442; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Cyprus
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.