Cultural and Historic Places in Uruguay from OpenStreetMap

Uruguay's cultural and historic places exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset 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 assets for protection based on OSM tags like `historic` and `heritage`.
• Analyze spatial distribution of tourism amenities based on features like museums and theatres.
• Create cultural resource inventories for urban planning based on categorized places of worship and monuments.

Strengths

• Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, and monuments.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Explicitly sourced from OpenStreetMap with provided tag documentation links.

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 exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:04:18.931452; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Uruguay