Sweden Cultural and Historic Places from OpenStreetMap

Sweden's cultural and historic places 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 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Use Cases

• Map cultural resource density for heritage protection based on the described historic and tourism tags.
• Analyze spatial distribution of amenities like theatres and museums for tourism context.
• Create basemaps of places of worship and monuments for cultural mapping projects.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
• Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, and monuments as described.

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.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and export via specified OSM tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:19:37.287002; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sweden