South Africa Financial Services Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) include features tagged as financial services amenities across South Africa. The dataset, last updated on 2026-03 03, likely contains points of interest such as banks, ATMs, mobile money agents, and post offices. Features may have attributes including names in multiple languages, addresses, and operator information.

Use Cases

• Mapping financial service accessibility based on amenity type and location.
• Analyzing operator networks and brand presence based on the 'operator' and 'network' attributes.
• Supporting multilingual applications using the 'name' attributes in languages like Afrikaans, Zulu, and Xhosa.
• Conducting address-based geocoding or service area analysis using the 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' fields.

Strengths

• Includes multiple financial service types (e.g., bank, atm, microfinance) as defined by OpenStreetMap tags.
• Provides multilingual name fields for at least 9 South African languages, suggesting cultural relevance.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GARMIN IMG, GEOPACKAGE, GEOJSON, SHP, KML) for flexibility.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific 'amenity' tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:51:50.347794; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Africa