Cultural and Historic Places in Malta from OpenStreetMap

Cultural and historic places in Malta 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 based on OSM tags for tourism and amenity.
• Identify and catalog historic sites for conservation planning based on the historic and heritage tags.
• Create tourism context maps for visitors based on the described features like theatres and places of worship.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Derived from a free, collaborative global map (OpenStreetMap).
• Explicitly includes features tagged with tourism, amenity, historic, and heritage keys.

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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 18:59:09.268436; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Malta