About Us
⌘ Point of Interest (POI) is defined as an entity (such as a business) at a ground location (point) which may be (of interest).
We provide high-quality POI data that is fresh, consistent, customizable, easy to use and with high-density coverage for all countries of the world.
This is our process flow:
- Our machine learning systems continuously crawl for new POI data
- Our geoparsing and geocoding calculates their geo locations
- Our categorization systems cleanup and standardize the datasets
- Our data pipeline API publishes the datasets on our data store
A new POI comes into existence. It could be a bar, a stadium, a museum, a restaurant, a cinema, or store, etc.. In today's interconnected world its information will appear very quickly in social media, pictures, websites, press releases. Soon after that, our systems will pick it up.
POI Data is in constant flux. Every minute worldwide over 200 businesses will move, over 600 new businesses will open their doors and over 400 businesses will cease to exist. And over 94% of all businesses have a public online presence of some kind tracking such changes. When a business changes, their website and social media presence will change too. We'll then extract and merge the new information, thus creating the most accurate and up-to-date business information dataset across the globe.
We offer our customers perpetual data licenses for any dataset representing this ever changing information, downloaded at any given point in time. This makes our company's licensing model unique in the current Data as a Service - DaaS Industry. Our customers don't have to delete our data after the expiration of a certain "Term", regardless of whether the data was purchased as a one time snapshot, or via our data update pipeline.
Customers requiring regularly updated datasets may subscribe to our Annual subscription plans. Our data is continuously being refreshed, therefore subscription plans are recommended for those who need the most up to date data. The main differentiators between us vs the competition are our flexible licensing terms and our data freshness.
Data Schema
Data from all countries is formatted using the same schema with natural/English language versions where applicable.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
poi_name |
The name of the point of interest | String |
Aura Whole Foods
|
poi_tel |
The telephone number of the point of interest | String |
15064544240
|
main_category |
The main category name of the point of interest | String |
Health food store
|
second_category |
The secondary category name of the point of interest | String |
Yoga studio
|
location_id |
Integer id of the geo location of the POI with a resolution of 10 metres | Integer |
2447510120796
|
area_id |
Integer id of the general area (city/neighborhoods) of the POI location | Integer |
205995
|
small_area_id |
Integer id of the specific area (a small collection of city blocks) of the POI location. This is useful for grouping together Points of Interest that are for example in the same Airport or Mall. | Integer |
244751012
|
latitude |
Latitude coordinate of the point of interest. | Float |
45.961273
|
longitude |
Longitude coordinate of the point of interest. | Float |
-66.647735
|
adr |
Street Address. | String |
199 Westmorland St
|
city |
City Name. | String |
Fredericton
|
neighborhood |
City Neighborhood or City District Name. | String |
Downtown
|
prov |
Province, State or Region Name | String |
NB
|
postal |
Postal or Zip Code | String |
E3B 3L6
|
country |
The country name | String |
Canada
|
formatted_address |
The formatted postal address | String |
199 WESTMORLAND ST FREDERICTON NB E3B 3L6 Canada
|
source_url |
The web address of the point of interest | String |
aurawholefoods.com
|
email |
The email address of the point of interest | String |
[email protected]
|
opening_hours |
The hours of operation | String |
Monday to Wednesday: 9am - 5pm; Thursday to Friday: 9am - 6pm; Saturday: 9am-4pm
|
crawl_time |
The timestamp when this POI was crawled and verified as active | DateTime |
2021-02-28 23:05:44
|
Pricing
Our pricing is simple. A subset of the data costs 1c per data item, the whole dataset costs a fixed price per country (Annual data license).
Data Subset Pricing
$0.01per POI Record
- Select your data subset by city, neighborhood, category, or by drawing a polygon on a map
- Review the number of records found and sample records in the dataset
- Purchase and download the data in CSV format
- No need to create an account with us (Optional)
- PERPETUAL PARTIAL DATASET LICENSE
Annual full dataset licenses
Country specific pricing- Complete dataset for a given country in our coverage area (with monthly or annual updates)
- Data is provided as a single CSV file
- Create an account with us to track and download the latest data versions each month or year
- Download new data on your account page directly or via our data pipeline API
- PERPETUAL FULL DATASET LICENSE
Entreprise Plans
Country specific pricing- Complete dataset for a given country in our coverage area (with continous updates)
- Data is provided as a single CSV file
- Create an account with us to track your data versions
- Download new data on your account page directly or via our data pipeline API
- UNRESTRICTED PERPETUAL FULL DATASET LICENSE
- Real-time updates. Get new poi data as we get them in real time via our API