No plans to dog these days of summer. Welcome to the August 2024 release notes 🐶😎.

Places Highlights

• Significant coverage gains in US and Western Europe 🌎
• 2 new rich attribute columns for malls available in the US and Canada!🛍
• 27 new brands across 91 countries 🎉

Places Growth

This month, SG Places has a grand total of 54,070,543, including POI with or without geometry, closed POI, and parking lots. This is a net increase of 896,535 places from last month 📈.

Global Gains

Like last month, we continued to bring in new sources to fill consumer oriented coverage gaps, and the following countries saw the largest POI gains by top_category:

• France (FR): +224,694 POIs 🇫🇷
  • naics_code like 7121% (Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions): +85,825 🏛🏟
  • naics_code like 8121% (Personal Care Services): +23,218 💇‍♀️💆‍♂️
• United States (US): +210,771 POIs 🇺🇸
  • naics_code like 4451% (Grocery and Convenience Retailers): +60,641 🛒
  • naics_code like 8121% (Personal Care Services): +28,268 💇‍♀️💆‍♂️
• Great Britain (GB): +120,831 POIs 🇬🇧
  • naics_code like 7121% (Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions): +43,732 🏛🏟
  • naics_code like 7139% (Other Amusement and Recreation Industries): +11,194 ⛳️⛷
• Italy (IT): +110,609 POIs 🇮🇹
  • naics_code like 7121% (Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions): +108,779 🏛🏟
  • naics_code like 7224% (Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)): +13,837 🍸🍻
• Netherlands (NL): +85,221 POIs 🇳🇱
  • naics_code like 7121% (Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions): +27,967 🏛🏟
  • naics_code like 7225% (Restaurants and Other Eating Places): +12,852 🍜🌯

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

New Shopping Mall Columns!

The shopping mall landscape is super diverse, and that's especially true in the birthplace of strip malls, the US. For example, both a small outlet with 7 stores and 1 "anchor" tenant and the "Mall of America" (225-278@5pb-ky2-66k) are defined by naics_code = 531120. This leaves much to be desired, and we're happy to unveil two new columns that more uniquely define shopping malls in the US and Canada! 🛍

Place Format

place_format applies widely adopted classification systems to specific groups of POIs, and for shopping malls, we're adhering to ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) standards to more granularly define our shopping mall POIs. See our docs for definitions, and let us know if there's another slice of data that could benefit from a place_format!

Mall GLA

mall_gla shows the "gross leasable area" (GLA) for shopping mall POIs measured in square feet. This column supplements place_format for malls nicely as GLA is an input to ICSC definitions.

Brands

This month, we added a grand total of 27 brands across 91 countries including:

• Blukids (SG_BRAND_0e5f1992a36df87d) with 676 POIs 👕
• Flormar (SG_BRAND_d3c650b550cbd0f5) with 495 POIs 💄
• Bank Pekao (SG_BRAND_9a6bd1457c034cf1) with 487 POIs 🏦
• Alior Bank (SG_BRAND_56637ef80a0fedf8) with 171 POIs 🏦
• Independence Health System (SG_BRAND_38d0d9a392984483) with 161 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 1,729 brands with at least one store closure in June 2024 and 1,907 brands with at least one store opening in June 2024. 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 1,213,559 Placekeys (85,449 branded and 1,128,110 non-branded).