Morocco Points of Interest: Trilingual OpenStreetMap Infrastructure Data

Morocco geospatial points of interest (POI) exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) with a last update recorded in March 2026. The collection includes locations tagged as amenities, shops, tourism sites, or man-made features across the country. It provides geographic coordinates alongside localized naming and capacity metadata.

Use Cases

• Mapping tourism capacity using the tourism, beds, and rooms columns
• Analyzing commercial density by filtering the shop and amenity categories
• Linguistic analysis of Moroccan toponyms using name:ar and name:ber fields

Strengths

• Trilingual support with specific columns for Arabic (name:ar) and Berber (name:ber)
• Six available file formats including SHP, GeoPackage, and KML for GIS compatibility
• Includes specific capacity attributes like beds and rooms for tourism features

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data source may result in inconsistent attribute completion for fields like opening_hours
• Geographic bias toward high-traffic or urban areas typical of volunteer-led mapping

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) via HDX

Collection Method

Exported from OpenStreetMap crowdsourced geographic database

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03.

Geography

Morocco