Cultural and Historic Places in Madagascar from OpenStreetMap

Madagascar'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 heritage sites for protection efforts based on the historic and heritage tags.
• Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for regional planning.
• Create cultural tourism guides based on the locations of theatres, monuments, and places of worship.
• Cross-reference OSM cultural data with local field knowledge for validation and gap analysis.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• 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.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 18:38:19.596547; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Madagascar