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Description
Geospatial points of financial service locations in Bhutan, including banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches. The data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free collaborative world map, and was last updated on 2026-06-26. Coverage likely reflects volunteer mapper activity, with urban areas better represented than remote ones.
Use Cases
Map financial service access for inclusion analysis based on amenity types mentioned in the description.
Plan cash distribution networks based on the locations of ATMs and money transfer agents.
Analyze the spatial distribution of banking infrastructure for economic development studies.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping platform.
Multiple export formats are available, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Explicitly tagged for financial services via the OpenStreetMap `amenity` key.
Limitations
Coverage is uneven, with urban areas well-represented and remote areas likely 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 the OpenStreetMap platform.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-26 04:45:05.387900.
Geography
Bhutan
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative databases.