Cultural Places in Latvia from OpenStreetMap

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