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Description
Portugal: Cultural Places is a geospatial dataset of cultural and historic locations in Portugal, exported from OpenStreetMap. It includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites, tagged via OSM keys such as `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, and `heritage`. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides the data on HDX, last updated on 2026-05-14.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection planning based on the `historic` and `heritage` tags.
Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on features like museums and theatres tagged with `tourism`.
Identify locations of worship for demographic or urban studies based on the `amenity` tag.
Strengths
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
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 and export via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 23:00:12.707227; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Portugal
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.