Financial Services of Botswana: Locations of Banks, ATMs, and Money Transfer Agents

Financial Services of Botswana is a geospatial dataset from OpenStreetMap, aggregated by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It contains locations of financial service amenities like banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches, tagged via the `amenity` key. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-26.

Use Cases

• Map financial service accessibility based on amenity locations mentioned in the description.
• Plan cash distribution networks based on the locations of ATMs and money transfer agents.
• Analyze economic activity patterns based on the spatial distribution of financial service points.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Covers multiple financial service types: banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, HTML, KML, GEOJSON, JSON.

Limitations

• Coverage reflects volunteer mapper activity; urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be 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 collaborative platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-26 04:52:00.153416; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Botswana