Points of interest (POI) data

Points of interest (POI) data lists businesses and places with their locations and attributes: shops, restaurants, offices, hospitals, schools, parks and transport hubs. It powers mapping and local search, site selection, market sizing, delivery coverage planning and insurance exposure analysis, and it is the place reference behind foot traffic analytics.

Typical fields:

• Place ID, name and brand
• Category within a stated taxonomy
• Latitude and longitude, with a precision indicator
• Normalized address and postal code
• Opening hours, phone and website
• Open or closed status and last verified date
• Building footprint or polygon for larger sites

Sources and collection

POI databases combine official registries, business websites and chain store locators, open data such as OpenStreetMap, partner feeds and field or user contributions. Providers deduplicate overlapping records, standardize categories and check whether places still operate. Freshness is the main quality challenge, because businesses open, close and move constantly.

Delivery and pricing

Delivered as country or global files in Parquet, CSV or GeoJSON, through warehouse shares, or via search and lookup APIs. Pricing is often per thousand places, per country file or an annual global licence. Polygons, opening hours and verified status may be priced as add-ons.

Before you buy

• Check coverage and accuracy in your target cities against places you know.
• Ask how closures are detected and how often records are re-verified.
• Review the category taxonomy and how it maps to yours.
• Confirm coordinate precision: rooftop or entrance versus street level.
• Check the licence if places will be shown in a public app.
• If you combine it with open data, check licence compatibility.