Maps and Data
- Data Overview — Location Intelligence and GIS Data Layers
An orientation to the platform's data layers: location intelligence clusters, co-location tiers, and the GIS tile pipeline.
- Nordic and UK Coverage Expansion
How Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom entered the co-location intelligence dataset through three Alpha-tier chain promotions in May 2026.
- POI data schema
The POI data schema defines record structures for location data ingested from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps Foundation, normalized into a unified JSONL format before cluster analysis. Wikidata QIDs serve as the primary chain identifier, and parent-child sub-location models handle co-branded ancillary services.
- Regional Name Resolution Architecture
Each co-location cluster is labelled with a human-readable regional name — a North American Metropolitan Area, a European NUTS-3 region, a Mexican municipio, a Canadian Census Subdivision. That name is the output of a layered offline reverse-geocoding pipeline that draws from five open boundary datasets without requiring external API calls.
- Site Ledger Integration
Operational link binding each physical construction site to an isolated digital archive container, maintaining immutable audit records from groundbreak through commissioning.
- Spend and population estimation: provenance and assumptions
Provenance chain behind catchment population and spend estimates — WorldPop rasters, H3 aggregation, and per-capita multipliers, with their stated weaknesses.
- Trade area data sources — population and spend
Population estimates from WorldPop 2026 and annual per-capita spend proxies from national household surveys underpin the trade area statistics for each co-location cluster.
- Transaction Summary Report Protocol
Site-approval protocol advancing shortlisted Development Site candidates from geographic scoring to Independent Director review via the Transaction Summary Report.
- UK and European Food Retail Coverage
The co-location index distinguishes between chains that participate in cluster scoring — anchors, hardware, warehouse — and chains that appear on the map as supporting context without affecting cluster grades. The Food family is the latter. This article documents United Kingdom and European Union food-retail coverage as of the May 2026 expansion.