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# June-2024 Release Notes

We're whipping our data into summer shape!  Welcome to the June 2024 release notes. 😎

# [Places](https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/places) Highlights

* **Refined`closed_on` detection remedies 300k+ global POIs** 🚨
* **Canonicalized`city` values for  global POIs** 🌆
* **New Places column differentiating residential vs commercial address now available in the US!** 📫

## **Places Growth**

In the June release, SafeGraph has a grand total of **53,003,841** places, including POIs with or without geometry, closed POIs, and parking lots. This is a net increase of **19,221** places from last month. Through some large source updates, the categories and countries with the most net new POIs are:

* `naics_code` = 722511 (Full Service Restaurants) with **+35,249** POIs in the US 🇺🇸 🍔
* `naics_code` = 5617 (Services to Buildings and Dwellings) with **+31,666** POIs in the US 🇺🇸 👨‍🔧
* `naics_code` = 485119 (Other Urban Transit Systems) with **+22,551** POIs in Germany  🇩🇪 🚊

As always, you can visit our [Places Summary Stats](https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/places-summary-statistics) for more granular metrics.

### **Refined`closed_on` Detection**

Flagging newly closed POIs is critical to any measure of accuracy, and this month, we refined our global `closed_on` logic to catch an **additional \~317k closed POIs previously (and incorrectly) marked as open.** In countries where open/close features are currently supported ([see docs for country list](https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/places-rich-attributes#determining-poi-openclose-opened_on-closed_on-tracking_closed_since)), we marked 180k+ POIs with a new `closed_on` value. In countries where open/close features are not supported, 137k+ closed POIs have been removed from the data. The countries with the largest impacts are:

* `iso_country_code` = JP  where **131k POIs have a new`closed_on` value** 🇯🇵
* `iso_country_code` = BR  where **112k closed POIs are now removed** 🇧🇷
* `iso_country_code` = US  where **34k POIs have a new`closed_on` value** 🇺🇸

### **Global City Canonicalization 🌆**

POI metadata like `city` is often abbreviated, replaced with a town/locality name, or even misspelled.  This can be especially ambiguous in countries lacking widely adopted postal standards, which makes data matching and "group by" queries challenging. We applied some heuristics to detect the most obvious outliers and replaced with a more common `city` value to alleviate this challenge. As a result, **\~793k POIs now have a canonicalized`city` name.** Below are a few examples of this improvement:

| placekey              | city (previous) | city (June release) | iso\_country\_code |
| :-------------------- | :-------------- | :------------------ | :----------------- |
| `zzy-222@53n-zbj-djv` | `Köln-sülz`     | `Köln`              | `DE`               |
| `zzy-222@53k-thz-ch5` | `Milan`         | `Milano`            | `IT`               |
| `zzy-222@53m-64n-cdv` | `Genova (ge)`   | `Genova`            | `IT`               |

### **New Address Column! 📫**

Our [definition of a place](https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/definition-of-a-place) is quite broad, and while we do not capture single family homes as POIs, some POIs operate out of residential addresses. To help our customers differentiate residential vs. commercial addresses (per its country's postal authority), we're debuting `land_use_class`as our newest address attribute! [See docs](https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/address-attributes) for details, and contact your customer success manager to learn more.

### **Brands**

We've added a total of **868 brands** across **26 countries** :earth\_africa: including:

* Araujo (`SG_BRAND_7f75f6e07ef9e901`) with **302** POIs 🩺 💊
* Richmond Hotels (`SG_BRAND_7ceb82216887de3f`) with **51** POIs 🏨
* Every (`SG_BRAND_c61e71c4522afdc1`) with **51** POIs 🛒

:eyes: Are we missing a brand or country? :eyes: Please let us know [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXeH2AesJShaJ9pySJno71znUWdBGiN2VaNVxzFJ37GssZfQ/viewform)!

#### **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 **1,900** brands with at least one store closure in April 2024 and **1,867** brands with at least one store opening in April 2024. [Learn more about our open/close columns here](https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/places-rich-attributes#determining-when-poi-open-and-close).

### **Drops** ⬇️

* We are ingesting many sources and due to source changes and processing changes, Placekeys do drop over time. In this release, we dropped **1,002,843** Placekeys (183,423 branded and 819,420 non-branded).