Financial Services Infrastructure in Burundi from OpenStreetMap
Updated 26d ago
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Description
Burundi's financial service points, including banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches, tagged via the `amenity` key. The data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free collaborative world map, and was last updated on 2026-06-26. It is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in multiple geospatial formats.
Use Cases
Map financial inclusion based on the distribution of service points like banks and microfinance branches.
Plan cash distribution networks based on the locations of ATMs and money transfer agents.
Conduct economic analysis of service availability using the tagged `amenity` infrastructure data.
Strengths
Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
Limitations
Coverage is dependent on volunteer mapper activity, leading to sparse data in remote areas.
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 01:30:33.259560; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Burundi
Data is licensed under ODbL-1.0, which requires attribution and share-alike for derivative works.