Cultural Places of Uganda from OpenStreetMap Volunteer Mapping

OpenStreetMap volunteer mappers have tagged cultural and historic places across Uganda. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites, sourced from a free, collaborative world map. It was last updated on 2026-06-22 22:07:01.337716 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on the `heritage` and `historic` tags.
• Analyze tourism infrastructure distribution based on the `tourism` and `amenity` tags.
• Create cultural resource inventories for urban and regional planning based on the described place types.

Strengths

• Includes multiple cultural place types: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, HTML, KML, GEOJSON, JSON.

Limitations

• Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity; urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse.
• 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 mapping via OpenStreetMap tagging.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 22:07:01.337716; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Uganda