Release Notes - Places

May 2024

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,216,440
- US: 22,545,781
- Rest of world: 103,670,659
POIs added in last 30 days: 70,834
- US: 37,575
- Rest of world: 33,259
POIs removed in last 30 days: 23,981
- US: 9,170
- Rest of world: 14,811
Validated in last 30 days: 3,040,883

Chains

Total POI count: 3,032,503
- US: 1,480,781
- Rest of world: 1,551,722
POIs added in last 30 days: 10,915
- US: 8,773
- Rest of world: 2,142
Validated in last 30 days: 563,089
- US: 416,596
- Rest of world: 146,493

April 2024

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,168,076
- US: 22,517,548
- Rest of world: 103,650,528
POIs added in last 30 days: 64,695
- US: 7,312
- Rest of world: 57,383
POIs removed in last 30 days: 22,015
- US: 13,138
- Rest of world: 15,604
Validated in last 30 days: 1,365,369

Chains

Total POI count: 3,027,439
- US: 1,479,326
- Rest of world: 1,548,113
POIs added in last 30 days: 5,708
- US: 4,417
- Rest of world: 1,291
Validated in last 30 days: 223,872
- US: 107,209
- Rest of world: 116,663

March 2024

What's New

Improved Open/Closed Scores for 6 countries (APAC - India,Indonesia,Vietnam; EMEA - Finland, Norway; Mexico)
- We improve Open/Closed scores using a Machine Learning algorithm that takes into account 100+ features like the trends in check ins, edits, photos in FSQ Consumer apps.
- With this update, we have improved and standardized the confidence across the 6 countries.
  - When we say a place is VeryLikelyOpen/VeryLikelyClosed, we have 95% confidence that the POI is Open/Closed respectively. That is more than 10% improvement in precision for the VeryLikelyOpen bucket.
  - When POIs fall under LikelyOpen+VeryLikelyOpen or LikelyClosed+VeryLikelyClosed, we have 80% confidence that the place is Open/Closed respectively.
- When we look at the POI distribution across the buckets, we have reduced the number of POIs by 25% in the “Unsure” bucket, when averaged across the 6 countries.
- NOTE: This is the fifth update to closed_bucket improvements in 2023-24. The 14 countries improved previously were the US, CA, BR, JP, AU and Europe (AT, CH,DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, PT).
Improved Lat-long Accuracy for Finland and Indonesia
- We improve lat-long accuracy by using a Geocode Summarizarization technique that chooses the most accurate lat-long from 200+ input sources.
- We measure the improvements by measuring distance to ground truth at the median (50th percentile), and also long tail at 75th and 90th percentiles. With this update, the median distance is 7% (~1.75m) closer to Ground Truth, and 75th and 90th percentile is ~10% closer to ground truth.
- NOTE: This is part of a series of improvements to lat-long in 2023-24. In the previous updates in 2023-24, we rolled out refreshed lat-longs for 17 countries (Americas - US, CA, BR; APAC - AU, JP, KR, SG; Europe - AT, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, PT, NL).

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,123,773
- US: 22,515,911
- Rest of world: 103,607,862
POIs added in last 30 days: 40,200
- US: 24,471
- Rest of world: 15,729
POIs removed in last 30 days: 57,596
- US: 13,138
- Rest of world: 44,458
Validated in last 30 days: 990,350

Chains

Total POI count: 3,027,574
- US: 1,479,363
- Rest of world: 1,548,211
POIs added in last 30 days: 2,657
- US: 2,002
- Rest of world: 655
Validated in last 30 days: 195,586
- US: 116,746
- Rest of world: 78,840

February 2024

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,247,706
- US: 22,540,129
- Rest of world: 103,707,577
POIs added in last 30 days: 98,433
- US: 18,561
- Rest of world: 79,872
POIs removed in last 30 days: 41,029
- US: 19,843
- Rest of world: 21,186
Validated in last 30 days: 1,124,288

Chains

Total POI count: 3,042,034
- US: 1,489,866
- Rest of world: 1,552,168
POIs added in last 30 days: 3,918
- US: 1,417
- Rest of world: 2,501
Validated in last 30 days: 94,539
- US: 3,151
- Rest of world: 91,388

January 2024

What’s New

Improved Open/Closed Scores for 3 countries (AU, CH, PT)
- We improved Open/Closed scores using a Machine Learning algorithm that takes into account 100+ features like the trends in check ins, edits, photos in FSQ Consumer apps.
- With this update, we have improved and standardized the confidence across the 3 countries.
  - When we say a place is VeryLikelyOpen/VeryLikelyClosed, we have 95% confidence that the POI is Open/Closed respectively. That is more than 10% improvement in precision for the VeryLikelyOpen bucket.
  - When POIs fall under LikelyOpen+VeryLikelyOpen or LikelyClosed+VeryLikelyClosed, we have 80% confidence that the place is Open/Closed respectively.
- When we look at the POI distribution across the buckets, we have reduced the number of POIs by 22% in the “Unsure” bucket, when averaged across the 3 countries.
- NOTE: This is the fourth update to closed_bucket improvements in 2023. The 11 countries improved previously were the US, CA, BR, JP and Europe (AT, DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT).

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,193,443
- US: 22,543,763
- Rest of world: 103,649,680
POIs added in last 30 days: 49,919
- US: 19,764
- Rest of world: 30,155
POIs removed in last 30 days: 35,074
- US: 8,085
- Rest of world: 26,989
Validated in last 30 days: 1,314,295

Chains

Total POI count: 3,035,955
- US: 1,486,725
- Rest of world: 1,549,230
POIs added in last 30 days: 6,511
- US: 5,772
- Rest of world: 739
Validated in last 30 days: 316,305
- US: 211,122
- Rest of world: 105,183

December 2023

What’s New

EV Charger coverage increases in MY, VN, AE, and SG. Increases are up to the following counts depending on the cut of the data received.
- MY: 664
- VN: 34
- AE: 589
- SG: 593
Improved freshness of Drinking and Dining data in the US. 46% of Drinking and Dining POIs in the US have been refreshed in the past 6 months. This is up from 38% that had been refreshed in the past 6 months in September.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,176,661
- US: 22,531,927
- Rest of world: 103,644,734
POIs added in last 30 days: 29,493
- US: 137
- Rest of world: 29,356
POIs removed in last 30 days: 34,556
- US: 1,909
- Rest of world: 32,647
Validated in last 30 days: 4,148,824

Chains

Total POI count: 3,034,318
- US: 1,482,979
- Rest of world:
POIs added in last 30 days: 828
- US: 8
- Rest of world: 820
Validated in last 30 days: 178,680
- US: 17
- Rest of world: 178,663

November 2023

What's New

Added 23 new chains in the US. Including: Coffee Beanery, DGX, Duchess Shoppe, Egg Harbor Café, Erik''s DeliCafe, Fannie May Fine Chocolates, Farm Stores, Fastlane, Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, Gourmet Latté, Han-Dee Hugo's, Ike's Love & Sandwiches, IT'SUGAR, Kohr Bros, Lee's Discount Liquor, Lolli and Pops, Marylou's Coffee, Payless Liquors, Rhodes 101, Seasons Corner Market, Smallcakes Cupcakery, Sugar Factory, The Coffee Tree Roasters. For a full list, please see Chains table.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,181,144
- US: 22,533,628
- Rest of World: 103,647,516
POIs added in last 30 days: 305,477
- US: 17,310
- Rest of World: 288,167
POIs removed in last 30 days: 57,129
- US: 12,913
- Rest of World: 44,216
Validated in last 30 days: 3,902,086

Chains

Total POI count: 3,031,875
- US: 1,483,009
- Rest of World: 1,548,866
POIs added in last 30 days: 14,131
- US: 7,012
- Rest of World: 7,119
Validated in last 30 days: 433,034
- US: 286,190
- Rest of World: 146,844

October 2023

What's New

Improved Open/Closed Scores for 5 Countries (AT, BR, CA, ES, JP)
- We improve Open/Closed scores using a Machine Learning algorithm that takes into account 100+ features like the trends in check ins, edits, photos in FSQ Consumer apps.
- With this update, we have improved and standardized the confidence across the 5 countries.
  - When we say a place is VeryLikelyOpen/VeryLikelyClosed, we have 95% confidence that the POI is Open/Closed respectively. That is more than 6% improvement for the VeryLikelyOpen bucket.
  - When POIs fall under LikelyOpen+VeryLikelyOpen or LikelyClosed+VeryLikelyClosed, we have 80% confidence that the place is Open/Closed respectively.
- Depending on the precision requirements, customers can use a combination that works best for them.
- When we look at the POI distribution across the buckets, we have reduced the number of POIs by 15% in the “Unsure” bucket, when averaged across the 5 countries.
- NOTE: This is the third update to closed_bucket improvements in 2023. The 6 countries improved previously were the US and Western Europe (DE, FR, GB, IE, IT).
Improved Lat-Long Accuracy for 4 Countries (AT, AU, BR, PL)
- We improved lat-longs by a process called Geocode Summarization, where the final latitude and longitude for a POI is selected based on analysis of the geocodes from 200+ data sources.
- To test the improvement in accuracy of predicted lat-longs, we sampled data with manually inspected lat-longs from multiple trusted sources. We found that,
  - The median distance between the actual (ground truth) vs predicted (by geo summarizer model) lat-longs has reduced by 13% on average, when compared to previous lat-long. That is ~2.5m closer to ground truth on absolute terms.
  - The 75th percentile has improved by 15% (~10m closer to ground truth) and the 90th percentile by 9% (24m closer), when averaged across the 4 countries.
- NOTE: This is the fourth update to lat-long accuracy improvements in 2023. The 13 countries improved previously were NAMER (US, CA), EMEA (CH, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, NL, PT), APAC (JP, KR, SG).
- There was a bug that meant that category labels were plural, instead of singular. This was resolved and will be reflected in your next delivery.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 125,293,417
- US: 22,531,774
- Rest of World: 102,761,643
POIs added in last 30 days: 184,941
- US: 55,320
- Rest of World: 129,621
POIs removed in last 30 days: 172,694
- US: 78,082
- Rest of World: 94,612
Validated in last 30 days: 2,364,983

Chains

Total POI count: 3,018,609
- US: 1,479,476
- Rest of World: 1,539,133
POIs added in last 30 days: 2,892
- US: 953
- Rest of World: 1,939
Validated in last 30 days: 302,457
- US: 202,873
- Rest of World: 99,584

September 2023

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 125,923,469
- US: 22,554,333
- Rest of World: 103,369,136
POIs added in last 30 days: 338,328
- US: 66,018
- Rest of World: 272,310
POIs removed in last 30 days: 163,443
- US: 37,144
- Rest of World: 126,299
Validated in last 30 days: 6,736,373

Chains

Total POI count: 3,080,224
- US: 1,533,177
- Rest of World: 1,547,047
POIs added in last 30 days: 20,952
- US: 14,802
- Rest of World: 6,150
Validated in last 30 days: 521,223
- US: 246,371
- Rest of World: 274,852

August 2023

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 125,744,805
- US: 22,525,569
- Rest of World: 103,219,236
POIs added in last 30 days: 187,925
- US: 33,563
- Rest of World: 154,362
POIs removed in last 30 days: 98,832
- US: 25,089
- Rest of World: 73,743
Validated in last 30 days: 4,051,708

Chains

Total POI count: 3,083,377
- US: 1,541,966
- Rest of World: 1,541,411
POIs added in last 30 days: 36,337
- US: 31,834
- Rest of World: 4,503
Validated in last 30 days: 387,310
- US: 155,148
- Rest of World: 232,162

July 2023

What's New

Added ~90 categories to the taxonomy: On June 1, the team added ~90 new categories to the taxonomy. As part of the update, we changed the labels to +150 categories in order to provide more granular information in the hierarchy to enhance search and analysis opportunities. As a whole, this initiative reinforces our goal to provide the most granular and accurate information to our customers, providing the most flexibility available to build the best products.
Improved Open/Closed status for Western Europe: We refreshed Closed Bucket labels for 5 countries in Western Europe (FR, IT, DE, GB, IE) by recalibrating and retraining the Open/Closed Machine Learning models with larger quantity and better quality data.
- With this update, when we say a POI is VeryLikelyOpen or VeryLikelyClosed, we are 95% confident that it is Open or Closed respectively. This is a nearly 5% improvement compared to before. Also, we are 80% confident that a POI identified as LikelyOpen or VeryLikelyOpen is Open; and similarly, 80% confident that a POI identified as LikelyClosed or VeryLikelyClosed is Closed.
- In terms of distribution of POIs, there is a 40% reduction (on average across the 5 countries) in the number of POIs in the Unsure bucket. And, ~15% increase in the number of POIs in the Open buckets.
- Note: This is the second update to improving Closed Bucket this year. In the previous May update, we rolled out a refreshed Closed Bucket for the US.
Improved lat-longs: Last month, we improved lat-longs for 6 countries in EU (FR, IT, IE, PT) and Asia (SG, KR) by a process called Geocode summarization, where a lat-long is picked for a POI from multiple data sources with a predictive algorithm. As we have mentioned before, to test the improvement in accuracy of predicted lat-longs, we sample data with manually inspected lat-longs from trusted sources. We found that,
- For four (FR, IE, PT, KR) out of the six countries, the median distance between the actual (ground truth) vs predicted (by geo summarizer model) lat-longs has reduced by 11% on average, when compared to old lat-long. That is ~2m closer to ground truth in absolute terms. For POIs in the 75th percentile, there is an improvement of 10%.
- SG is seeing a 7% improvement in the 75th and 90th percentile ranges; And, Italy is seeing an improvement of nearly 33% in the 90th percentile.
- Note: This is the third update to improve lat-longs. In the previous updates in H1 2023, we rolled out refreshed lat-longs for 7 countries (US, CA, CH, ES, GB, JP, NL).

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 125,654,272
- US: 22,516,510
- Rest of World: 103,137,762
POIs added in last 30 days: 276,222
- US: 31,890
- Rest of World: 244,332
POIs removed in last 30 days: 51,061
- US: 7,639
- Rest of World: 43,422
Validated in last 30 days: 3,638,824

Chains

Total POI count: 3,065,093
- US: 1,526,111
- Rest of World: 1,538,982
POIs added in last 30 days: 5,392
- US: 2,401
- Rest of World: 2,991
Validated in last 30 days: 823,177
- US: 666,930
- Rest of World: 156,247

June 2023

What's New

Released ~90 new categories to API V3 and flat file on June 1. Over 150 category labels were updated as part of this release to include more granular information to help with filtering. New categories will begin appearing over time. See our Places Categories FAQs for more details.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 125,448,839
- US: 22,512,531
- Rest of World: 102,936,308
POIs added in last 30 days: 723,415
- US: 125,073
- Rest of World: 598,342
POIs removed in last 30 days: 1,225,573
- US: 82,873
- Rest of World: 1,142,700
Validated in last 30 days: 4,056,048

Chains

Total POI count: 3,081,883
- US: 1,544,098
- Rest of World: 1,537,785
POIs added in last 30 days: 12,017
- US: 5,856
- Rest of World: 6,161
Validated in last 30 days: 655,683
- US: 482,699
- Rest of World: 172,984

May 2023

What's New

Closed Bucket Attribute: Last month saw an increase to its precision as it has improved across the board. As part of May’s release Closed Bucket will now be delivered as a Core attribute for all Places clients.
- For customers who do not receive Closed_Bucket today:
  - Closed_Bucket will be delivered as a new core attribute. FSQ will not automatically filter any permanently closed places. Users can filter the closed_bucket depending on a use case that demands high reality and open POIs (high precision) vs. wide coverage and open POIs (high recall). The quintessential quality vs. quantity tradeoff.
- For customers who receive Closed_Bucket today:
  - Users can continue to easily filter the closed_bucket depending on a use case that demands highly real and open POIs (high precision) vs. wide coverage and open POIs (high recall).

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 125,950,331
- US: 22,470,164
- Rest of World: 103,480,167
POIs added in last 30 days: 243,663
- US: 11,532
- Rest of World: 232,131
POIs removed in last 30 days: 1,010,684
- US: 332,705
- Rest of World: 677,979
Validated in last 30 days: 4,003,469

Chains

Total POI count: 3,094,780
- US: 1,547,441
- Rest of World: 1,547,339
POIs added in last 30 days: 5,203
- US: 3,050
- Rest of World: 2,153
Validated in last 30 days: 360,510
- US: 150,691
- Rest of World: 209,819

April 2023

What's New

Improved Lat-Long for the US (GeoSummarizer Model)
We improve lat-longs by a process called Geocode Summarization, where the final latitude and longitude for a POI is selected based on analysis of the geocodes from multiple data sources.
- To test the improvement in accuracy of predicted lat-longs, we sampled data with manually inspected lat-longs from multiple trusted sources. We found that,
  - The median distance between the actual (ground truth) vs predicted (by geo summarizer model) lat-longs has reduced by 24%, when compared to old lat-long.
  - Nearly 11% POIs (>5M) are expected to move to the correct building with this update.
- When we evaluated the change with this update for all POIs in FSQ data,
  - 50% of POIs moved <10 meters
  - 90% of POIs moved <50 meters
  - As we strive for more accuracy, even though there might be a few POIs that are negatively impacted, the change is mostly within a 50m radius
- Note: This is the second update to improve lat-longs, and will reflect in the May 2023 delivery. In the Stage 1 rollout in Jan 2023, we improved the lat-longs for 6 countries (CA, CH, ES, GB, JP, NL).
Improved Closed scores for the US
Every month, we look for ways to improve the FSQ Reality and Closed Buckets to most accurately reflect our understanding of the real world for our customers. Due to the rapidly changing landscape of the world over the last few years, we have been hard at work to check what has changed and update our Closed Models to better reflect the “new normal”. The Closed buckets have been recalibrated with higher quality, larger quantity and more diverse data to predict better.
- The Closed Bucket precision has improved across. When we say a place is VeryLikelyOpen, earlier the accuracy of positive predictions was 85%. With the improved model, the average precision rises to 93%, significantly improving the quality of the bucket.
- In terms of the distribution of POIs, more than 10% of the POIs moved from Open buckets to Closed Buckets. This was an expected outcome with many businesses closing post Covid.
- The “Unsure” bucket is now renamed to “Undecided” to more effectively communicate that FSQ today has only ~55% confidence that a place is Open/Closed but will keep looking for more signals to update this status.
  - For ~15 customers who do not receive Closed_Bucket today:
    - Closed_Bucket, which was previously part of Calculated Scores, is now a new core attribute. This is essentially the likelihood scores, p(closed), converted to buckets
      - VeryLikelyClosed: (0.9, 1]
      - LikelyClosed: (0.7, 0.9]
      - Undecided: (0.3, 0.7]
      - LikelyOpen: (0.1, 0.3]
      - VeryLikelyOpen: [0, 0.1]
    - Users can filter the closed_bucket column depending on a use case that demands highly real and open POIs (high precision) vs wide coverage (high recall). The quintessential quality vs quantity tradeoff.
  - For rest who receive Closed_Bucket in Calculated Scores today:
    - Users can easily filter the closed_bucket depending on a use case that demands highly real and open POIs (high precision) vs wide coverage (high recall).
- Note: The changes will reflect in the May 2023 delivery.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,716,732
- US: 22,791,234
- Rest of World: 103,925,498
POIs added in last 30 days: 91,609
- US: 42,017
- Rest of World: 49,592
POIs removed in last 30 days: 101,749
- US: 18,109
- Rest of World: 83,640
Validated in last 30 days: 2,494,625

Chains

Total POI count: 3,123,621
- US: 1,561,990
- Rest of World: 1,561,631
POIs added in last 30 days: 26,067
- US: 24,303
- Rest of World: 1,764
Validated in last 30 days: 379,218
- US: 276,615
- Rest of World: 102,603

March 2023

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,725,694
- US: 22,767,053
- Rest of World: 103,958,641
POIs added in last 30 days: 54,619
- US: 5,632
- Rest of World: 48,987
POIs removed in last 30 days: 21,899
- US: 3,444
- Rest of World: 18,455
Validated in last 30 days: 3,821,059

Chains

Total POI count: 3,110,089
- US: 1,548,799
- Rest of World: 1,561,290
POIs added in last 30 days: 3,086
- US: 2,367
- Rest of World: 719
Validated in last 30 days: 472,109
- US: 306,571
- Rest of World: 165,538

February 2023

What's New

~87K new POIs added in South Korea, which is about a 4% increase in coverage.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,691,618
- US: 22,763,442
- Rest of World: 103,928,176
POIs added in last 30 days: 194,574
- US: 50,119
- Rest of World: 144,455
POIs removed in last 30 days: 45,112
- US: 16,449
- Rest of World: 28,663
Validated in last 30 days: 8,816,214

Chains

Total POI count: 3,111,395
- US: 1,547,689
- Rest of World: 1,563,706
POIs added in last 30 days: 9,637
- US: 6,912
- Rest of World: 2,725
Validated in last 30 days: 194,574
- US: 50,119
- Rest of World: 144,455

January 2023

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,540,117
- US: 22,729,546
- Rest of World: 103,810,571
POIs added in last 30 days: 486,906
- US: 122,626
- Rest of World: 364,280
POIs removed in last 30 days: 350,089
- US: 55,504
- Rest of World: 294,585

Chains

Total POI count: 3,109,044
- US: 1,547,419
- Rest of World: 1,561,625
POIs added in last 30 days: 21,772
- US: 20,182
- Rest of World: 1,590
Validated in last 30 days: 650,266
- US: 415,975
- Rest of World: 234,291

December 2022

What’s New

Extended valid South Korean addresses to include 로. This resulted in an additional ~160k addresses added to the South Korean dataset.
Added additional crawls in Mexico. This resulted in 452,829 POIs added (~12% improvement), and 46,479 lat/longs added (~1.2% improvement in fill rate).
Increased chain coverage by 775 chains in the US.
Improved accuracy of lat-longs in 6 countries to be rolled out in Jan 2023.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,401,883
POIs added in last 30 days: 629,327
POIs removed in last 30 days: 260,060
Validated in last 30 days: 8,164,898

Chains

Total POI count: 3,122,118
POIs added in last 30 days: 111,570
Validated in last 30 days: 530,593

Improved at-Long (GeoSummarizer Model)

For the 6 countries (CA, CH, ES, GB, JP, NL):

To test the improvement in accuracy of predicted lat-longs, we sampled data with manually inspected lat-longs from multiple trusted sources. We found that on average across the 6 countries, the median distance between the actual (ground truth) vs predicted (by geo summarizer model) lat-longs has reduced by 18%, when compared to old lat-long. Canada and Japan saw a huge improvement at 27-28%.
On average, when we evaluated the change with this update for all POIs in FSQ data:
- 60% of POIs moved <10 meters
- 94% of POIs moved <50 meters
- As we strive for more accuracy, even though there might be a few POIs that are negatively impacted, the change is mostly within a 50m radius
Note:
- This is the first update on improving lat-longs. In the Stage 1 rollout for Jan 2023, we are targeting the 6 countries (CA, CH, ES, GB, JP, NL).
- In the Stage 2 rollout at the end of Q1 2023, we will aim to improve lat-longs in US, IN, SG, DE.

November 2022

What's New

Fixed a bug that caused POIs generated by UGC to be removed if the lat/long conflicted with the associated country’s polygon. Since UGC data is flagged as high quality, the team created an exception so that POIs generated by UGC are not removed.
Improved fill rates (0.5% Globally and 2% in the US) by making Place crawls more accepting of partially correct and/or partially available hours.
Fixed a bug where the DMA attribute (US Only) was dropping leading and trailing 0’s. Resolving the bug resulted in adding values for 3.8m POIs (~8%).

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 126,032,616
POIs added in last 30 days: 315,061
POIs removed in last 30 days: 29,798
Validated in last 30 days: 4,032,417

Chains Changelog

Total POI count: 3,010,548
POIs added in last 30 days: 6,166
Validated in last 30 days: 353,673

October 2022

What's New

Resolved a bug for POIs in South Korea that resulted in addresses being removed. By pushing the fix, more than 129k POIs in South Korea gained an address value and over 20k POIs had their address modified.
Expanded EV charger coverage, which now includes +62k POIs globally, up from ~2.8k POIs at the start of the month.
Made Places crawls more accommodating of partially correct and/or partially available hours of operation information earlier in Q3. This change generated a .5% improvement in fill rate, globally. In the US, this improved the fill rate by nearly 2%.

POI Changelog

Total POI count: 125,754,117
POIs added in last 30 days: 1,225,897
POIs removed in last 30 days: 77,020
Validated in last 30 days: 12,519,660

Chains Changelog

Total POI count: 2,977,032
POIs added in last 30 days: 35,173
Validated in last 30 days: 909,612

September 2022

POI Changelog

Please note these numbers refer to the “quality cut” of the Places dataset. Numbers represent the last 30 days.

Total POI count: 121,082,217
POIs added in last 30 days: 606,203
POIs removed in last 30 days: 86,080
Validated in last 30 days: 11,026,200

Chains Changelog

Total POI count: 2,946,389
POIs added in last 30 days: 9,944
POIs removed in last 30 days: 0
Validated in last 30 days: 1,036,638

August 2022

POI Changelog

Please note these numbers refer to the “quality cut” of the Places dataset. Numbers represent the last 30 days.

Total POI count: 120,921,154
POIs added in last 30 days: 550,065
POIs removed in last 30 days: 500,081
Validated in last 30 days: 3,105,429

Chains Changelog

Total POI count: 2,883,221
POIs added in last 30 days: 7,624
POIs removed in last 30 days: 0
Validated in last 30 days: 326,141

July 2022

What's New

+16,000 Electric Charging Station POIs were added, globally.

POI Changelog

Please note these numbers refer to the “quality cut” of the Places dataset. Numbers represent the last 30 days.

Total POI count: 120,913,998
POIs added in last 30 days: 2,081,970
POIs removed in last 30 days: 673,291
Validated in last 30 days: 8,315,935

Chains Changelog

Total POI count: 2,846,370
POIs added in last 30 days: 30,537
POIs removed in last 30 days: 0
Validated in last 30 days: 1,076,700

June 2022

What's New

Census Block ID available and a core attribute for new customers.
The Website attribute for ~300k POIs in Italy redirected to the POI’s page on a popular digital business directory. We have blacklisted that site, and removed it from the corresponding POIs. This impacts ~30% of all POIs in Italy.
Removed +36,000 fake venues in Antarctica.

POI Changelog

Please note these numbers refer to the “quality cut” of the Places dataset. Numbers represent the last 30 days.

Country	# of POIs Validated*
Global	6,392,470
United States	43,147
Australia	476,077
Brazil	13,913
Canada	738,242
France	630,333
Germany	257,045
Great Britain	679,451
Italy	1,339,416
Japan	901,842
Mexico	171,275
Singapore	2,237
Spain	469,463

Chains Changelog

Total POI count: 2,771,513
POIs added in last 30 days: N/A
Validated in last 30 days: 305,299