Cultural and Historic Places in Iraq from OpenStreetMap
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6filesGEOPACKAGE
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Description
OpenStreetMap exports for Iraq contain cultural and historic places tagged via `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, or `heritage` keys. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-14. Data includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection planning based on the `historic` and `heritage` tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for regional development.
Create basemaps for cultural tourism applications using the `tourism` and `amenity` feature types.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
Covers multiple cultural feature types: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, 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 and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 16:42:59.472318; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Iraq
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.