Jamaican Cultural and Historic Places from OpenStreetMap

Jamaica's cultural and historic places exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Map cultural resource density for heritage protection based on the described categories of museums, galleries, and monuments.
• Analyze spatial distribution of tourism amenities for planning based on the tourism and amenity tags.
• Create cultural tourism guides or context layers based on the described places of worship and historic sites.

Strengths

• Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.

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.
• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 16:54:49.428254; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jamaica