Tanzania Points of Interest: Multilingual OSM Export with 15 Attributes

Tanzania geospatial points of interest exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. The data captures locations categorized by amenities, shops, tourism sites, and man-made structures across the country. It provides localized naming and capacity metadata for infrastructure planning and navigation.

Use Cases

• Analyzing hospitality capacity using the beds and rooms columns
• Navigational routing and geocoding using the addr:street and addr:city fields
• Categorizing urban infrastructure and service availability via the amenity and shop tags

Strengths

• Multilingual support with name:en and name:sw fields
• Available in 5 geospatial formats including SHP, GeoPackage, and Garmin IMG
• Includes specific capacity attributes like beds and rooms for tourism sites

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data subject to inconsistent attribute population across different regions
• Unknown total record count in the current export summary

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial contributions

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Tanzania