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Description
Tunisia'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 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on OSM historic tags.
Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on amenity and tourism tags.
Create cultural atlases for research based on categorized places of worship and monuments.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
Covers multiple cultural place types: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
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 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 10:22:40.569342; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Tunisia
License is ODbL-1.0. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge as data completeness varies.