Enhancements#

• Category fill rate has increased from ~65% to ~93% 🎉
• Improvements to spatial hierarchy: more POI have parent / child relationships (via parent_safegraph_place_id) 👪
• Improved polygons for POI inside of ~3,000 malls
• Improved casino coverage 💵

Fixes#

• In the last release of Places, the brand_info files excluded brands that had no POI. Unfortunately, some "parent" brands were unintentionally excluded as a result. In this release, we will include all brands, including parent brands, even if such brands have zero POI attached.
  • For example, "General Motors" (safegraph_brand_id: SG_BRAND_09fcf13a3339566e) is the parent brand of GMC, Buick, Chevrolet and Cadillac; while each of these "sub-brands" have POI, the parent "General Motors" does not. The parent brand was unintentionally excluded from the brand_info files in the September release of Places.

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