Australian Financial Service Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Australia containing points of interest tagged as financial services. The data includes banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches, collected by volunteer mappers. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Map financial service access for inclusion studies based on amenity types like banks and ATMs.
• Plan cash distribution infrastructure based on ATM and money transfer agent locations.
• Analyze local economic activity patterns using the spatial distribution of financial amenities.

Strengths

• Covers multiple financial service types including banks, ATMs, and money transfer agents.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats like GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, offering free global data.

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-collected geographic data tagged via the `amenity` key.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 04:28:47.259918; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia