120 million places in 220 countries with categories, coordinates, brands, opening hours and a daily-verified open/closed status.
Data product · Listing updated 11 Nov 2026
Worldwide, no country restrictions stated.
Open/closed status checked daily
120M places
Startups, Small and medium businesses, Mid-market, Enterprises
Business websites, registries and partner feeds
Automated daily verification with human review of high-traffic places
A global points-of-interest dataset covering restaurants, shops, services, offices and public places. Each place carries a stable ID, name, normalized address, coordinates, a 400-category taxonomy, the brand where the place belongs to a chain, phone and website where published, opening hours and an open/closed flag verified daily.
Places are compiled from public business websites, official registries and partner feeds, then deduplicated by matching name, address and geometry. High-traffic places are reviewed by people; the rest are checked automatically every day against web and partner signals. Places that stop showing activity are marked closed rather than deleted, so history is preserved. Coverage is densest in North America and Europe, while categories and attributes are consistent across all 220 countries and territories. The dataset describes places only and contains no data about individuals or devices.
12 fields as documented by Meridian Places.
| Field | Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| place_id | string | Stable Meridian place ID | — |
| name | string | Place name as displayed | — |
| category | string | Category from the 400-category taxonomy | — |
| brand | string | Chain brand, empty for independents | — |
| latitude | number | WGS84 latitude | — |
| longitude | number | WGS84 longitude | — |
| address | string | Normalized postal address | — |
| phone | string | Published business phone number | — |
| website | string | Published business website | — |
| opening_hours | json | Weekly opening hours by day | — |
| is_open | boolean | Open/closed status from the latest daily check | — |
| last_verified | date | Date of the latest successful verification | — |
Real rows from the provider's sample file. Personal data is masked before anything is shown.
| place_idstring | namestring | categorystring | latitudestring | longitudestring | is_openstring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mp_8f2a | Demo Coffee House | cafe | 51.5079 | -0.0877 | true |
| mp_19bc | Example Pharmacy | pharmacy | 52.5200 | 13.4050 | true |
| mp_7d41 | Sample Hardware Store | hardware_store | 48.8566 | 2.3522 | false |
Prices in USD, as published by Meridian Places
per 1,000 places
global file
Converted amounts use DataStoa display rates and are approximate. Meridian Places quotes the final price, taxes and terms.
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Time coverage: 2019 to present.
Provider-reported
Latency: Open/closed status checked daily
DataStoa has not audited these figures. Ask the provider how they are measured, or test them on a sample.
The licence is agreed directly between you and Meridian Places. This summary is provider-reported; the linked terms prevail.
Not listed: AI / ML model training, AI retrieval and grounding, redistribution allowed, marketing and outreach, research use. Ask Meridian Places if you need any of these.
Global points of interest with daily freshness checks
Meridian Places maintains a global database of businesses and places, verified daily against web and partner signals, with open/closed status, categories and opening hours.
Also available on: Databricks Marketplace, Snowflake Marketplace
What buyers say about Meridian Places. Reviews cover the provider, not only this listing.
from 2 reviews
The 400-category taxonomy is detailed, which meant about a week of mapping to our own 60 categories. Answers to our questions came within a day, but there was no ready-made crosswalk. Coverage in Southern Europe was better than we expected.
Sofia L., Product manager, maps, Travel app start-up
We replaced an older POI file that was full of closed restaurants. In a spot check of 300 places around our candidate sites only a handful were wrong, and those were all recent closures. Trade-area reports are now something the property team actually trusts.
Tom B., Location analytics lead, UK convenience retail chain