UK and European food retail coverage
docs(projects wiki): fidelity sweep, round 1 — 9 of 37 articles defective across news/reference/urban/buildings/rollout/gis/industry; wrong GIS tier taxonomy, unimplemented-vs-live parent-child model, wrong MX fallback chain, real-world Aldi Nord/Süd error, retired research category, cluster-score mismatch
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ Five Lidl country instances and four Aldi country instances were added in May 20 | Lidl Austria | Q151954 | 260 | | Aldi Poland | Q41171 + name query | 280 | | Lidl Portugal | Q151954 | 270 | | | | | Aldi operates as two corporate entities — Aldi Süd (Wikidata Q41171) and Aldi Nord (Wikidata Q125054) — that split European geography along a north-south axis. In the Netherlands and Nordic-adjacent markets, only Aldi Nord operates. In the United Kingdom and Poland, only Aldi Süd operates. The OpenStreetMap brand identifier tag on individual store records is inconsistent across markets — many stores carry one identifier, the other, or neither. To achieve acceptable coverage in markets where the identifier tag is sparse, the ingest configuration falls back to a name-based query confined to the country's bounding box. Aldi operates as two corporate entities — Aldi Süd (Wikidata Q41171) and Aldi Nord (Wikidata Q125054) — that split European geography along a north-south axis. In the Netherlands and Nordic-adjacent markets, only Aldi Nord operates. In the United Kingdom and Poland, only Aldi Süd operates. **Correction (2026-08-02):** Poland is real-world Aldi **Nord** territory, not Aldi Süd — a plain factual error about Aldi's actual corporate structure, independent of any codebase check. UK is correctly Aldi Süd. **Flagged, not resolved.** The OpenStreetMap brand identifier tag on individual store records is inconsistent across markets — many stores carry one identifier, the other, or neither. To achieve acceptable coverage in markets where the identifier tag is sparse, the ingest configuration falls back to a name-based query confined to the country's bounding box. ## Coverage Observations