Cultural Places in the Netherlands from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports provide cultural and historic places across the Netherlands, including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data from volunteer contributions, with completeness varying between urban and remote areas. Last updated on 2026-05-14, the dataset is useful for heritage protection, cultural mapping, and tourism context.

Use Cases

• Map cultural infrastructure density for tourism planning based on the described museums, galleries, and theatres.
• Analyze spatial distribution of heritage sites for protection efforts based on monuments and historic sites.
• Create a basemap of places of worship for demographic or social studies based on the amenity tags mentioned.
• Cross-reference OSM cultural data with local field knowledge for validation, as suggested in the description.

Strengths

• Covers multiple cultural place types explicitly listed: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Derived from a well-known, collaborative source (OpenStreetMap) maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
• 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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap, with urban areas likely better mapped than remote regions.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org)

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 21:52:04.207599; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Netherlands