Financial Services Infrastructure of Ethiopia from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions provide a geospatial dataset of financial amenities across Ethiopia. The data includes banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches, tagged via the `amenity` key. Coverage reflects mapper activity, with urban areas likely well-represented and remote areas potentially sparse.

Use Cases

• Mapping financial inclusion based on the geographic distribution of amenity types.
• Planning cash distribution networks based on the locations of ATMs and money transfer agents.
• Conducting economic analysis based on the density and types of financial service branches.

Strengths

• Covers multiple financial service types, including banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, KML, and GEOJSON.
• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.

Limitations

• Coverage is uneven, with urban areas likely well-represented and remote areas potentially sparse, reflecting volunteer mapper activity.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping contributions aggregated by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-19 10:35:25.422143

Geography

Ethiopia