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@geoalgeria/culture

Algeria's cultural atlas — as data you can install.

1,083 cultural places across 66 of Algeria's 69 wilayas — protected heritage sites, museums, theatres, libraries and cultural establishments (maisons & palais de la culture, cinemas, culture directorates, arts schools) from the Ministry of Culture's Cartes du Patrimoine Culturel Algérien atlas, 100% bilingual French/Arabic and fully geocoded (every place carries a source coordinate). Shipped as JSON, CSV, GeoJSON, and TypeScript. Part of GeoAlgeria.

npm install @geoalgeria/culture

import culture from "@geoalgeria/culture";

const all = culture.culture();          // 1,083 cultural places

// Museums in a wilaya (joins GeoAlgeria's wilaya_code)
const museumsAlger = all.filter((p) => p.wilaya_code === "16" && p.type === "museum");

// Just the protected heritage sites, ready to map
const heritage = all.filter((p) => p.category === "heritage");

// Places with a 360° virtual tour
const tours = all.filter((p) => p.has_virtual_tour);

What you can build

• Cultural maps & nearest-place search — every one of the 1,083 places has coordinates, ready for a map or a "what's near me" feature.
• Bilingual cultural directories — French and Arabic names, official type and wilaya for every place; filter heritage vs. operating establishments.
• Heritage & tourism apps — protected sites, museums and 360° virtual tours, linked to commune/wilaya for routing and coverage analysis.

What's inside

| Dataset | Count | Coordinates | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cultural places | 1,083 | 1,083 geocoded | 66 wilayas, 100% bilingual, 22 with 360° tours |

By category

| Category | Count | Meaning | | --- | --- | --- | | heritage | 943 | protected sites, museums, theatres, libraries | | establishment | 140 | operating cultural venues & directorates |

By type

| Type | Count | Meaning | | --- | --- | --- | | protected-cultural-property | 580 | Bien culturel protégé — protected monument/site | | library | 257 | Bibliothèque — public reading library | | museum | 48 | Musée — museum | | theatre | 45 | Théâtre — theatre | | museum-moudjahid | 13 | Musée du Moudjahid — museum of the war of independence | | cultural-house | 51 | Maison de la culture | | cultural-directorate | 33 | Direction de la culture — wilaya culture directorate/office | | cinema | 20 | Salle de cinéma — cinema / cinematheque | | cultural-center | 15 | Centre culturel — cultural / research centre | | arts-school | 15 | École d'art — fine-arts school / conservatory | | cultural-palace | 6 | Palais de la culture |

The atlas is official; treat the coordinates as best-effort. Names, type, coordinates and the 360° flag come from the Ministry of Culture's portal. Wilaya is exact; commune is derived (see Source & method). Counts move as the portal is edited; each rebuild reflects its current state.

Formats

The npm package ships the JSON (importable directly):

import culture from "@geoalgeria/culture/data/culture.json" with { type: "json" };
// or via CDN, no install:
// https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@geoalgeria/culture/data/culture.json

The loaders and record shapes are fully typed — TypeScript definitions ship in the package:

import culture, { type CulturalSite } from "@geoalgeria/culture";
const all: CulturalSite[] = culture.culture();

CSV and GeoJSON are in the repo under data/ and bundled in every GitHub Release:

data/
  culture.json              # 1,083 cultural places (array)
  metadata.json             # sources, counts, coverage, generated_at
  csv/culture.csv           # repo + Release bundle
  geojson/culture.geojson   # Point features (every record)

Record shape

{
  "id": "16-museum-03",
  "name": "Musée national Public d'art moderne et contemporain",
  "name_ar": "المتحف العمومي الوطني للفن الحديث و المعاصر",
  "name_fr": "Musée national Public d'art moderne et contemporain",
  "type": "museum",
  "category": "heritage",
  "type_label_fr": "Musée",
  "type_label_ar": "متحف",
  "has_virtual_tour": true,
  "wilaya": "Alger",
  "wilaya_ar": "الجزائر",
  "wilaya_code": "16",
  "commune": "Casbah",
  "commune_code": 1607,
  "source": "patrimoineculturel",
  "geo_precision": "source_point",
  "url": "https://cartes.patrimoineculturelalgerien.org/fr/node/101",
  "node_id_fr": 101,
  "node_id_ar": 817,
  "slug": "musee-national-public-d-art-moderne-et-contemporain",
  "lat": 36.777301,
  "lng": 3.057572
}

id is a stable {wilaya_code}-{type_code}-{seq} key synthesized by GeoAlgeria. name is the French name where available, else Arabic. type is the place's layer on the portal; category groups the 11 types into heritage vs. establishment. has_virtual_tour is true for the 22 places with a 360° tour. geo_precision is "source_point" for every record — the portal publishes a coordinate for each place.

Wilaya is exact; commune is derived. The portal still files some places under pre-2019 wilaya codes; GeoAlgeria rescopes each place to the current 69-wilaya scheme by matching its coordinate to the nearest geoalgeria commune centroid (which also yields commune/commune_code). Commune is best-effort (the flagship ships centroids, not boundary polygons).

Need the administrative divisions too?

For wilayas, dairas, and communes, use the main geoalgeria package — it's how you turn a place's commune_code into a polygon or centroid. Use @geoalgeria/culture when you only need the cultural places.

Source & method

Run npm run fetch to regenerate every output. It:

1. reads the curated, bilingual cultural atlas (assembled and translated from the Ministry of Culture's cartes.patrimoineculturelalgerien.org portal — the portal's French and Arabic catalogs are disjoint node sets, unioned by coordinate proximity and translated to fill the bilingual gaps);
2. rescopes each place to the current 69-wilaya scheme and attaches a commune/commune_code by matching its coordinate to the nearest geoalgeria commune centroid;
3. assigns stable ids, drops exact duplicate nodes, and emits JSON, CSV, GeoJSON and metadata.

The curated source and extraction notes are under research/patrimoine/.

License & attribution

Package code is MIT. The data is a factual public listing from the Ministry of Culture's cultural-heritage portal (names, types, coordinates and 360° tours as published). Commune/wilaya linkage is derived from the geoalgeria administrative dataset.

Verify against official sources for authoritative information. This dataset is provided for reference and to power GeoAlgeria.

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