South Africa Points of Interest from OpenStreetMap, Including Amenities and Shops

OpenStreetMap features in South Africa where tags for 'amenity', 'man_made', 'shop', or 'tourism' are present. The dataset is an export from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and was last updated on 2026-03-03. Features may have attributes like name, address, opening hours, and multilingual name tags in languages such as Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu.

Use Cases

• Mapping retail and service locations based on the 'shop' and 'amenity' tags.
• Analyzing tourism infrastructure distribution using the 'tourism' tag.
• Validating or enriching address data for South African points using the 'addr:*' fields.
• Creating multilingual maps or applications using the 'name:*' tags for local languages.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual name tags for at least 9 South African languages, such as Afrikaans (af), Xhosa (xh), and Zulu (zu).
• Covers four distinct OpenStreetMap feature categories: amenities, man-made structures, shops, and tourism sites.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, Shapefile, and KML.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tag filters.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:06:36.814235; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Africa