Cultural and Historic Places in Réunion from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for cultural and historic places on Réunion, including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The data is sourced from volunteer contributions to OpenStreetMap and was last updated on 2026-05-14. It is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) via the HDX platform.

Use Cases

• Map cultural infrastructure for tourism planning based on the described tourism and amenity tags.
• Analyze the distribution of heritage sites for protection efforts based on historic and heritage tags.
• Create a cultural inventory for regional development based on the described categories of museums, galleries, and monuments.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas likely being less complete than urban areas.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via tags for tourism, amenity, historic, and heritage.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:21:39.593561; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Réunion