Cultural and Historic Places in Zambia from OpenStreetMap
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Description
Zambia'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 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Use Cases
Map cultural heritage sites for protection planning based on the historic and heritage tags.
Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for economic development.
Create cultural context layers for GIS projects based on the geospatial features of places of worship and monuments.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
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.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap
Collection Method
Volunteer-contributed mapping and export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-15 09:07:17.886938; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Zambia
License is ODbL-1.0. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge as data completeness varies.