Sierra Leone Financial Services Locations from OpenStreetMap

Sierra Leone's financial service points, including banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches, mapped via OpenStreetMap's `amenity` tags. The data is an export by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and was last updated on 2026-05-14. OpenStreetMap is a free, collaborative world map where completeness varies by region, with urban areas typically better mapped than remote ones.

Use Cases

• Map financial inclusion and service gaps based on the locations of banks, ATMs, and microfinance branches.
• Plan cash distribution or humanitarian aid logistics based on the network of money transfer agents and post offices.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of economic infrastructure for regional development studies.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data completeness varies, with remote areas likely less mapped than urban centers as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed geographic data tagged with the `amenity` key.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:49:29.449425; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sierra Leone