Cultural and Historic Places in the Northern Mariana Islands from OpenStreetMap

An OpenStreetMap export of cultural and historic places in the Northern Mariana Islands, last updated on 2026-05-14. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. It was compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and is useful for heritage protection, cultural mapping, and tourism context.

Use Cases

• Map cultural heritage assets for protection planning based on the described historic and heritage site tags.
• Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on the described tourism and amenity tags.
• Create cultural resource inventories for community mapping based on the described categories of museums, galleries, and places of worship.

Strengths

• Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
• 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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 20:23:48.437596; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Mariana Islands