Welcome to the December 2022 release! 🎄☃️🎁
This is the final release in what has been an incredible year of growth around the globe for SafeGraph!
(2022-11-22/1669107602 shipped on 2022-12-06)

Highlights

• +1.2M new POI across the globe
• +195 new brands across 199 countries
• +225K new POI in South Korea 🇰🇷
• +386k new polygons in over 40 APAC countries ⭔

Places

Enhancements

SafeGraph is delivering more POI each month in countries around the world. This month SG Places has a grand total of 41,383,961, including POI with or without geometry, closed POI and parking lots.
This is a net increase of 1,205,785 places from last month, including:

• +306,981 in JP 🇯🇵
• +225,730 in KR 🇰🇷
• +96,743 in DE 🇩🇪
• +49,898 in US 🇺🇸
• +44,524 in IT 🇮🇹

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

Brands

We've added a grand total of 195 brands across 199 countries. Some of the highlights:

Notable brands

• USPS Collection Points (SG_BRAND_b43fa926d19a5168) with 119,339 POI
• Rotary Club (SG_BRAND_cd81a468b2dc4b2e6178db75e74733fe) with 39,162 POI ⚙️
• Eneos (SG_BRAND_7f338d4fe91ee81b) with 11,607 POI

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 1,788 brands with at least one store closure in October 2022 and 2,024 brands with at least one store opening in October 2022:
  Learn more about our open/close columns here

Categories

The POI we've added this month span a wide range of categories, including the following additions:

• POI with geometry:
  • Restaurants and Other Eating Places (7225) with +460,004 POI 🍽️
  • Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (623) with +60,284 POI
  • Traveler Accommodation (7211) with +53,471 POI
• Point-only POI:
  • Couriers and Express Delivery Services (492110) with +194,710 POI 📦
  • Other Gasoline Stations (447190) with +23,714 POI
  • Commercial Banking (522110) with +23,685 POI

Drops ⬇️

• We are ingesting many sources and due to source changes and processing changes, Placekeys do drop over time. In this release, we dropped 617,257 Placekeys (29,437 branded and 587,820 non-branded).

Geometry

Enhancements

This month we added a significant number of polygons for POI in over 40 countries across the Asia Pacific region, including:

• +132,150 in TH 🇹🇭
• +85,297 in MY 🇲🇾
• +61,152 in PH 🇵🇭
• +43,169 in SG 🇸🇬

Premier Polygons

Every so often, we highlight some of our favorite polygons. This month, we're taking a look at a few of the new polygons we have available in Southeast Asia!

Patterns

Note: SafeGraph Patterns, Weekly Patterns, and Neighborhood Patterns are legacy products that will no longer be available at the start of 2023.

Enhancements - Patterns

• In last month's delivery, SG Monthly Patterns had 6,017,069 POIs (US only). This month, SG Monthly Patterns has 5,705,663 POIs (net -311,406).

• Last month, SG Monthly Patterns had 1,025,057,994 visits from 17,711,448 visitors. This month, SG Monthly Patterns has 938,095,627 visits from 18,686,757 visitors (delta -86,962,367 visits, +975,309 visitors).

• Our Neighborhood Patterns product, provides more generalized foot traffic flows across census block groups. In the US we have 2,070,819,556 raw stops (-166,809,323 from last month). In CA we have 43,835,027 raw stops (-2,610,163 from last month).