Cultural and Historic Places in Senegal from OpenStreetMap
Updated 23d ago
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Description
Cultural and historic places in Senegal exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, or `heritage` keys. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection planning based on `historic` and `heritage` tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries based on `tourism` and `amenity` tags.
Create a baseline for cultural resource inventories using the categorized places of worship and monuments.
Strengths
Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Covers specific cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
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 data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 23:39:40.244074
Geography
Senegal
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge as completeness varies.