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Description
OpenStreetMap exports provide cultural and historic places for Suriname, including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) maintains this export, last updated on 2026-05-15. Completeness of the volunteer-built map varies by region, with urban areas typically better mapped than remote ones.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on the `historic` and `heritage` tags.
Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on the `tourism` and `amenity` tags.
Create cultural mapping overlays for regional planning based on the described place categories.
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 world map built by volunteers.
Limitations
Completeness varies by region; 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 2026-05-15 10:38:33.583929; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Suriname
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.