Points of interest from OSM, last updated 2026-05-14. It includes public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks tagged via `amenity`, `shop`, `tourism`, or `man_made`. The data is a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
- Create general POI reference maps based on OpenStreetMap tags.
- Conduct urban analysis based on the distribution of amenities and shops.
- Enhance basemap detail for Mauritania using landmark and tourism feature data.
Strengths
- Covers multiple feature types including amenities, shops, tourism, and man-made structures.
- Available in multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, KML, HTML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON.
- Data is free and built by a collaborative community of volunteers.
Limitations
- 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.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenStreetMap
- Collection Method
- Volunteer-contributed mapping.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-14 20:42:20.437096; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Mauritania