Release Notes

November 2022

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%).

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%.

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

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

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

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.

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