Cultural Places in Guinea-Bissau from OpenStreetMap
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Description
Guinea-Bissau's cultural and historic places 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 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage assets for protection based on the described historic and heritage site tags.
Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on the described tourism and amenity tags.
Create cultural resource inventories for urban planning based on the described museum, gallery, and theatre features.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types as described: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON.
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, a well-known open data license.
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
OpenStreetMap completeness varies by region; remote areas of Guinea-Bissau may be incompletely mapped.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 11:25:32.772153; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Guinea-Bissau
Users must comply with the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0), which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.