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Description
OpenStreetMap exports for Oman contain cultural and historic places tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this data, which was last updated on 2026-05-14. It includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage assets for protection planning based on the described historic and heritage tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for regional development.
Create cultural context layers for GIS projects using the described places of worship and monuments.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
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 and export via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 22:35:55.056277; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Oman
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.