FAQs

Q: What are flagged venues? Are those venues participating in the visits counting or ranking process?

A: There are several reasons why a POI is being flagged (for example, lack of foot traffic information, dense area, etc.). This causes unreliable visits data, which Placer prefers not to consider. Therefore, flagged entities’ traffic is not counted in visit aggregations.

Q: When configuring a different week aggregation than Mon-Sun, when will the feed be delivered?

A: The weekly feeds are being delivered on Wednesdays. The week's aggregation considers the configured day as the week's starting day.

Q: What are the Premium export delivery scheduling?

The scheduling details for all feeds are provided on this page.

Q: How is an entity uniquely identified in the feeds and metadata files

A: The unique identification of an entity in the feeds consists of both the entity ID and the entity type. Therefore an ID can appear, for example, once as a venue and once as a complex.
Please note that an entity (venue/complex) included in multiple chains (i.e. parent chain and additional combined chains) will appear multiple times in the feeds and metadata files. In those cases, the unique identifier will be reached by combining the entity ID + entity type + chain ID metadata attributes.

Q: Can there be schema changes?

A: Occasionally, Placer may need to modify the schema of the files, for example, by adding extra attributes included in the metadata file. These additional attributes will be appended as extra columns, and you will receive a sample file along with a 30-day advance notice.