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Description
Cultural and historic places in New Zealand exported from OpenStreetMap. The data 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 infrastructure for tourism planning based on the described tourism and amenity tags.
Identify historic sites for heritage protection efforts based on the historic and heritage tags.
Analyze the distribution of cultural amenities like museums and galleries for regional development.
Strengths
Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, and monuments.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
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 tags for tourism, amenity, historic, and heritage.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 22:31:47.576447; freshness should be verified.
Geography
New Zealand
License is ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.