Tanzania Financial Services: OSM Points for Banks, ATMs, and Agents
Updated 3mo ago
8filesSHP
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Description
Tanzania financial infrastructure points exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. It maps locations of banks, ATMs, mobile money agents, and post offices across the country.
Use Cases
Mapping financial inclusion by analyzing the density of 'mobile_money_agent' locations
Network analysis of specific banks using the 'operator' and 'network' columns
Geocoding financial services using 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' attributes
Strengths
Includes local Swahili names via 'name:sw' field
Covers 8 specific financial amenity types including mobile money agents
Available in multiple GIS-ready formats like SHP and GeoJSON
Limitations
Crowdsourced data may have inconsistent attribute population for 'operator' or 'network' fields
Geographic bias toward urban areas common in OSM data
Provenance
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Collection Method
Crowdsourced geospatial tagging
Freshness
Updated as of March 2026.
Geography
Tanzania
Distributed under the ODC-ODbL license which requires attribution; data is a snapshot of the OSM database.