Vanuatu Financial Services: Multilingual OSM Geospatial Points of Interest

Geospatial point-of-interest data for financial services in Vanuatu, exported from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in March 2026. The collection identifies locations for banks, ATMs, and mobile money agents across the archipelago.

Use Cases

• Spatial analysis of financial inclusion using the 'amenity' and 'addr:full' columns
• Institutional footprint mapping using the 'operator' and 'network' attributes
• Linguistic analysis of place naming conventions using 'name:en', 'name:fr', and 'name:bis' fields

Strengths

• Includes 8 distinct financial amenity categories such as 'mobile_money_agent' and 'sacco'
• Multilingual support for English, French, and Bislama names
• Available in four standard GIS formats: SHP, GEOJSON, GEOPACKAGE, and KML

Limitations

• Crowdsourced data may have inconsistent attribute population for fields like 'operator' and 'network'
• Geographic bias toward urban centers like Port Vila and Luganville is likely

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial tagging

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Vanuatu