Sweden Cultural and Historic Places from OpenStreetMap
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Description
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
License is ODbL-1.0; users must comply with OpenStreetMap's attribution and share-alike requirements.