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 schema: foundry-doc-v1
 title: "Retail Co-location Intelligence — Overview"
 slug: co-location-intelligence-overview
 category: governance
 type: topic
 quality: complete
 status: active
 audience: customer-woodfine
 bcsc_class: current-fact
 language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC
 last_edited: 2026-05-02
 editor: pointsav-engineering
 paired_with: co-location-intelligence-overview.es.md
 cites:
   - overture-maps-cdla-2-0
   - osm-odbl
   - ni-51-102
   - osc-sn-51-721
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 # Retail Co-location Intelligence — Overview
 
 Retail co-location intelligence is the systematic identification and ranking of geographic sites where large-format retail categories converge within a defined catchment radius. The methodology answers a specific commercial question: at which locations does a hypermarket anchor coexist with a warehouse club, a home improvement superstore, and supporting civic infrastructure — and how does the strength of that combination vary by market?
 
 Woodfine Management Corp. operates a proprietary co-location intelligence platform at [gis.woodfinegroup.com](https://gis.woodfinegroup.com), built and maintained by PointSav Digital Systems. The platform currently covers eight retail markets across North America and Europe.
 
 ## Strategic Objective
 
 Large-format retailers do not locate arbitrarily. Supercenter operators, warehouse clubs, and home improvement superstores each independently apply capital-intensive site selection criteria — traffic counts, household income density, road-network accessibility, and competitive positioning. When two or three such operators converge on the same node within a given corridor, that convergence signals a validated commercial location: one where multiple independent parties have independently committed capital to serve the same trade area.
 
 The co-location intelligence system identifies and ranks those nodes using a deterministic named-anchor combination matrix. The output is a ranked index of sites, expressed as five quality tiers, which can be filtered by region, country, and secondary radius.
 
 ## Geographic Coverage and Scale
 
 The platform currently evaluates 8 retail markets across 13 countries, providing a cross-border view of retail density and commercial defensibility.
 
 | Region | Countries | Anchor operators |
 |--------|-----------|-----------------|
 | United States | US | Walmart, IKEA |
 | Canada | CA | Walmart, IKEA, Real Canadian Superstore |
 | Mexico | MX | Walmart, IKEA |
 | Spain | ES | IKEA, Carrefour, Alcampo, Leclerc |
 | Italy | IT | IKEA, Carrefour, Ipercoop, Iper La Grande, Bennet |
 | Greece | GR | IKEA |
 | Poland | PL | IKEA, Carrefour, Leclerc, Auchan |
 | Nordics | SE · NO · DK · FI · IS | IKEA, Bilka, Prisma, K-Citymarket, Obs Coop |
 
 ## Data Foundations
 
 The platform integrates three primary data sources to ensure high-fidelity spatial analysis:
 
 1.  **Service-business (Retail Operators):** Sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors, filtered by canonical brand Wikidata identifiers to ensure consistent brand-family matching across borders. As of 2 May 2026, the dataset contains 31,219+ individual retail locations across 60+ chains.
 2.  **Service-places (Civic Infrastructure):** Hospital and medical center records sourced from the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset (2026-04-15 release). This tertiary layer provides the "stabilizing" demographic context required for high-tier ranking.
 3.  **Service-transport (Logistics Support):** Aviation facility records from Overture Maps Foundation, retained for future tertiary scoring dimensions.
 
 *Material assumptions for current dataset counts include the continued availability of OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps Foundation data under their respective licenses (ODbL and CDLA Permissive 2.0). [osm-odbl] [overture-maps-cdla-2-0]*
 
 ## Site Index and Quality Tiers
 
 The current dataset identifies **2,738 ranked co-location sites** globally: 2,488 in North America and 250 in Europe. Sites are ranked using a deterministic matrix that evaluates the proximity and category of secondary anchors relative to a primary hypermarket anchor.
 
 | Tier | Description | NA count | EU count |
 |------|-------------|----------|----------|
 | ★★★★★ | Full co-location | 102 | 0 |
 | ★★★★ | Strong co-location | 259 | 9 |
 | ★★★ | Partial co-location | 1,396 | 175 |
 | ★★ | Limited co-location | 333 | 23 |
 | ★ | Anchor only | 398 | 43 |
 
 The current absence of Tier 5 sites in Europe reflects data coverage target milestones; the tertiary scoring dimension (healthcare and higher education) currently draws on Overture data that has established maturity in North American markets. Expansion of European tertiary data sources is an intended target for future platform iterations. [ni-51-102] [osc-sn-51-721]
 
 ## Interactive Surface
 
 The GIS platform renders the ranked site index as an interactive map at [gis.woodfinegroup.com](https://gis.woodfinegroup.com). Accessible to Woodfine board members and authorized personnel, the interface allows for real-time filtering by cluster grade and catchment radius (1 km, 2 km, or 3 km). 
 
 The platform is updated when new chain data is ingested or when the ranking matrix is recalibrated. All dataset counts and version identifiers are displayed in the platform header to ensure operational transparency.
 
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 ## Provenance
 - **Draft Source:** `topic-co-location-intelligence-overview.draft.md` (project-gis)
 - **Refinement:** 2026-05-02 by project-language Task
 - **Verification:** Site counts and country coverage verified against `app-orchestration-gis/config.py` as of May 2, 2026.
 - **BCSC Posture:** Forward-looking expansion targets for European tertiary data labeled per ni-51-102.