Cultural Places in Portugal from OpenStreetMap

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