Cultural Places in French Guiana from OpenStreetMap

An OpenStreetMap export of cultural and historic places in French Guiana, last updated on 2026-05-14. It includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. The data is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and is useful for heritage protection, cultural mapping, and tourism context.

Use Cases

• Map cultural heritage sites for protection planning based on the described historic and heritage tags.
• Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities for regional development based on the tourism and amenity tags.
• Create a cultural inventory for educational or tourism applications based on the described categories of museums, galleries, and monuments.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
• Includes multiple cultural place types: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• 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.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 15:52:28.121695; freshness should be verified.

Geography

French Guiana