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Description
Sudan Cultural Places is a geospatial dataset of cultural and historic locations exported from OpenStreetMap. It includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. The data is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-09.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection efforts based on the described historic and heritage tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for regional planning.
Create basemaps for cultural tourism applications using the described places of worship and monuments.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
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.
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 via the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-09 19:36:54.278859; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Sudan
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.