We've been pretty busy behind the scenes in December, upgrading some core pieces of our infrastructure to ensure ever higher accuracy in SafeGraph Places in 2019 Looking forward...

Welcome to the post-🦃edition of SafeGraph Places! #Enhancements# Added detailed store-level polygons for ~6,000 malls, covering both indoor malls and strip malls. Note that for a multi-sto...

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) :family...

Our September 28th release includes two major changes: 1. Brand information file location and schema changes 2. enclosed_geometry_mapping has been replaced with polygon_class Please contact your ...

Changelog - broken: The auxiliary brand mapping file we provide is no longer one file, but is now split into several files, for scaling reasons. - broken: Some top brand names reverted to July 31 ...

Changelog - broken: We changed some column names to ensure internal consistency among SafeGraph products. The following is a list of the changed column names in Places (old name → new name). All o...

Changelog - broken: “name” field: we now maintain capitalization and special characters such as ampersands in the “name” field; so, for example, a POI whose “name” was formerly “at and t park” wil...

Changelog - broken: We explicitly identify substores inside of ~1,000 indoor malls. In such cases, parent_safegraph_place_id will list the safegraph_place_id of the place of interest that the ...

Changelog - broken: main_Brand, sub_Brand fields in auxiliary brand mapping table are now called main_brand, sub_brand - fixed: Fewer duplicate POI. - added: Increased brand coverage in au...

Changelog - broken: poi_idfield is now called safegraph_place_id - added: More conservative decision-making on polygon shapes in dense urban areas: fewer small “shard” polygons, but more POI s...