Maps and Data
Refresh 4 remaining stale category landing pages (architecture, gis, reference, urban): match categories.yaml names/scope, wikilink representative articles; fix gis's false 'placeholder' claim (9 substantive articles already exist)
@@ -1,25 +1,31 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "GIS" title: "Maps and Data" slug: gis category: gis type: topic content_type: topic quality: complete short_description: "Spatial data methodology, data source provenance, and geographic intelligence for commercial real estate site evaluation: OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, population datasets, and geospatial analysis methods." short_description: "The maps and data behind the analysis: where the spatial data comes from, what it covers, and the methods used to screen markets and evaluate sites." status: active bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC last_edited: 2026-06-26 last_edited: 2026-07-04 editor: pointsav-engineering paired_with: _index.es.md --- GIS covers the spatial data methodology, data source provenance, and geographic intelligence platform used in commercial real estate site evaluation. Articles in this category address open-data infrastructure (OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, population datasets), data coverage and licensing, geospatial analysis methods, and the relationship between geographic data layers and commercial location decisions. Maps and Data covers the spatial data behind the analysis: where it comes from, what it covers, and the methods used to screen markets and evaluate sites. [[gis-data-overview|Data Overview]] is the entry point — an orientation to the location intelligence clusters, co-location tiers, and the tile pipeline that turns raw spatial data into a scored map. [[poi-data-schema|POI Data Schema]] and [[regional-name-resolution-architecture|Regional Name Resolution]] cover how individual points of interest and cluster labels are built from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps Foundation sources, and [[trade-area-data-sources|Trade Area Data Sources]] and [[spend-population-provenance|Spend and Population Provenance]] document where the population and spend estimates behind every trade area figure originate. Content in this category will be added when project-jennifer's DATA-MANIFEST.md review is complete. The category is established as a placeholder. Coverage-expansion articles — [[nordic-uk-coverage|Nordic and UK coverage]] and [[uk-eu-food-retail-coverage|UK/EU food-retail coverage]] — record when and how new countries and chain categories entered the dataset.