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Description
Cultural and historic places in Ecuador, exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, or `heritage` keys. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Use Cases
Mapping cultural heritage assets for protection based on OSM tags like `historic` and `heritage`.
Analyzing the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and theatres for regional planning.
Creating basemaps for cultural tourism applications based on categorized points of interest.
Cross-referencing community-mapped sites with official heritage registries for validation.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
Covers multiple cultural place types: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON.
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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 10:22:39.006235; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Ecuador
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.