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Description
OpenStreetMap data for Moldova includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The dataset is built by volunteers, with completeness varying between urban and remote areas. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on OSM `historic` and `heritage` tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries based on `tourism` and `amenity` tags.
Create a cultural tourism context layer for regional planning based on the described features.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, and monuments.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
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 data exported via tags for `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, and `heritage`.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 18:20:08.790050.
Geography
Moldova
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.