Botswana Financial Services Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Botswana contain points of interest tagged with `amenity` for financial services. The data includes banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Map financial service access based on amenity types like banks and ATMs.
• Plan cash distribution networks using locations of money transfer agents and post offices.
• Analyze economic activity patterns from the spatial distribution of financial amenities.

Strengths

• Covers multiple financial service types: banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL-1.0).

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 via the OpenStreetMap platform, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:39:50.552835; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Botswana