Points of Interest in Gambia from OpenStreetMap

Gambia contains points of interest exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks tagged via OSM keys. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Create reference maps based on OSM-tagged amenities and landmarks.
• Analyze urban service distribution based on categorized points of interest.
• Enrich basemaps for navigation apps using the exported shop and tourism locations.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
• Covers multiple categories of points of interest via specific OSM tagging keys (amenity, shop, tourism, man_made).
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, and GEOJSON.

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.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-05-15).

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:53:56.067017

Geography

Gambia