Global Places
Overview
SafeGraph’s Places data provides detailed information about physical places in a fresh and clean format. With POI data for countries around the world, you can gain insights about any location that a person can visit.
| Data Information | Value |
|---|---|
| Refresh Cadence | Monthly |
| Historical Coverage | 2019-Present |
| Geographic Coverage | Global |
Schema
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| PLACEKEY | Unique and persistent ID tied to this POI. |
| PARENT_PLACEKEY | If place is encompassed by a larger place (e.g. mall, airport), lists the placekey of the parent place; otherwise null. |
| LOCATION_NAME | The name of the place of interest. |
| SAFEGRAPH_BRAND_IDS | Unique and consistent ID that represents this specific brand. |
| BRANDS | If this POI is an instance of a larger brand, contains the brand name. |
| STORE_ID | The unique ID associated with the store as provided and maintained by the store/brand itself. |
| TOP_CATEGORY | The label associated with the first 4 digits of the POI’s NAICS category. |
| SUB_CATEGORY | The label associated with all 6 digits of the POI’s NAICS category. |
| NAICS_CODE | 4-digit or 6-digit NAICS code describing the business. |
| LATITUDE | Latitude coordinate of the place of interest. |
| LONGITUDE | Longitude coordinate of the place of interest. |
| STREET_ADDRESS | Street address of the place of interest. |
| CITY | The city of the point of interest. |
| REGION | The state, province, county, or equivalent of how "region" is understood in a given country for the place of interest. |
| POSTAL_CODE | The postal code of the place of interest. |
| ISO_COUNTRY_CODE | The 2 letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. |
| PHONE_NUMBER | The phone number of this POI |
| OPEN_HOURS | A JSON string with days as keys and opening & closing times (in the POI's local time) as values. |
| CATEGORY_TAGS | An array of descriptive tags indicating higher-resolution category information. |
| OPENED_ON | The outside year and month this POI opened in yyyy-mm format. |
| CLOSED_ON | The outside year and month this POI opened in yyyy-mm format. |
| TRACKING_CLOSED_SINCE | The outside year and month this POI closed in yyyy-mm format. If null, then this POI is open. |
| GEOMETRY_TYPE | The geometric shape associated with this POI. Possible values are POLYGON or POINT. |
| DOMAINS | The top-level domain(s) for the website(s) associated with the POI. |
| WEBSITE | The web URL for the POI's publicly available website. |
Geometry Variables
Geometry variables are available via a separate dataset on Dewey. You can use this dataset if you require these features. Global Places (POI) & Geometry
Brand Info
The brand_info dataset can be accessed as a related file on Dewey. Brand Info (Places, Patterns, Geometry, Spend) ↗️
A SafeGraph brand is defined as a store which has multiple locations all under the same logo or store banner.
SafeGraph's brand info can be joined to company company identifiers like those used on Compustat. View the Notebook.
SafeGraph Place ID Crosswalk
The SafeGraph Place ID Crosswalk can be used to join SafeGraph Place IDs to Global Places on using the Placekey identifier. SafeGraph Place ID Crosswalk.
Updated 29 days ago