🌷 Spring has sprung, and so has April’s data refresh.

Places Highlights

Improved gas station & convenience store geometry → updated polygons to better model gas station & c-store relationships ⛽🏪
Auto network relationships → continued work on mapping of POIs to auto networks via category_tags 🚗
392 new brands across 115 countries 🎉

Gas Station & Convenience Store Modeling Improvements

Following last month's expansion of US coverage for gas stations and convenience stores, this release focuses on improving polygon accuracy for these locations — making their shapes more precisely reflect physical site boundaries in the real world.

We've built out more consistent and standardized polygon modeling across gas stations (4471%) and convenience stores (457120), with particular attention to correctly distinguishing fuel sites from on-site or adjacent convenience stores. Customers who rely on that distinction will see more reliable results.

For more detail, please see Gas Station + Convenience Store: How We Model and Suggestion on How to Analyze. ⛽🏪

Auto Network Relationships

We continued refining how auto shops are associated with networks within our category_tags column.

We've updated all auto network category_tags to include the words Network.
O'Reilly Auto Network and AutoZone Network values are now available to identify affiliate repair shops and other participating POIs that are part of these networks. O'Reilly Auto Parts and AutoZone remain as brands for their own retail store locations, while these new tags help distinguish non-retail network relationships more accurately. 🚗

Places Growth

This month, SG Places totals 76,181,449 POIs (including POIs with/without geometry, closed POIs, and parking lots) - a net increase of 139,227. The increase comes from our source updates, new brands, and targeted coverage work. Country standouts & top NAICS gains:

United States: +153k POIs 🇺🇸
- naics_code = 722511 (Restaurants and Other Eating Places - Full-Service Restaurants): +80k POIs🥘
- naics_code = 722513 (Restaurants and Other Eating Places - Limited-Service Restaurants): +31k POIs 🍔
Brazil: +125k POIs 🇧🇷
- naics_code = 721110 (Traveler Accommodation - Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels): +10k POIs 🏨
- naics_code = 446110 (Health and Personal Care Stores - Pharmacies and Drug Stores): +6k POIs 💊

Of course, you can always visit our Places Summary Stats to find more details on our continued growth.

Brands

This month, we added a grand total of 392 brands across 115 countries including:

Aldi Nord (SG_BRAND_85f812f6efab7f28) - 5,773 POIs 🛒
Allianz (SG_BRAND_f112aefa04e8bfa6) - 5,626 POIs 🧑‍💼
DERKA (SG_BRAND_f4eb74b59f98be6b) - 2,455 POIs 🛠️
LOTTO Hessen (SG_BRAND_bdba79c8fa4c8449) - 1,893 POIs 🎰

👀 Are we missing a brand or country? 👀 Please let us know here

Brand Openings and Closings

We rely on POI metadata to track store openings and closings, and we are especially interested in understanding open/close dates for branded POIs. It can take more than a month to infer open/close dates, so we report brand open/close metrics on a one month delay.
In this release, we flagged 1,879 brands with at least one store closure in March 2026 and 1,931 brands with at least one store opening in March 2026. Learn more about our open/close columns here.

Drops ⬇️

We are ingesting many sources and due to source changes and processing changes, Placekeys do drop over time. In this release, we dropped 1,184,439 Placekeys (74,912 branded and 1,109,527 non-branded) due to targeted sourcing improvements.