Points of Interest in Niger from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Niger include public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks. The data is compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on 2026-05-14. Completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically better mapped than remote locations.

Use Cases

• Create reference maps for humanitarian or development work based on the OSM POI data.
• Analyze urban service distribution based on amenity and shop locations.
• Enrich tourist or navigation applications with landmark and attraction data tagged via tourism keys.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a large collaborative mapping project.
• Covers multiple POI categories via standardized OSM tagging keys: amenity, shop, tourism, and man_made.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and SHP.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Completeness varies by region, with remote areas likely being incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 21:23:07.120634; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Niger