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Description
Latvia's cultural and historic places exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via OSM keys for tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on OSM historic tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries.
Create cultural resource inventories for urban planning based on amenity data.
Generate tourism context maps using categorized points of interest.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, and monuments.
Derived from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, and GEOJSON.
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; urban areas are likely well-mapped while 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 exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 18:13:26.116246
Geography
Latvia
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.