Welcome to the Location Data Blog!

Geospatial data – specifically mobile location and Points-of-Interest (POI) data - is a powerful resource that enables everyday location-based services such as ride-hailing, food delivery, logistics, etc. Location data analyses have been proven to optimize commercial operations, identify high-impact public investments, improve our ability to respond to and prepare for natural disasters, and more.   

The location data industry is extremely dynamic because of several reasons, including new policies from dominant OS providers, data-privacy regulations, the ongoing transformation of cities and movement patterns, etc. As it continues to expand and evolve, businesses that  utilize geospatial data (as well as those that supply it) must stay up to date with the ever-changing landscape to maintain a competitive edge.   

Based on our expertise and success with many leading companies across the world, we have authored a report that details the themes and trends we believe will mold the industry in 2023 and beyond. 

We recently announced that Quadrant had gathered 500,000 Points-of-Interest (POI) via Geolancer, our industry-leading Data-as-a-Service platform. Previously, it took us 10 weeks to double the size of our database from 250,000 POI. This time around, we are delighted to share that we have achieved the same feat even quicker (a mere month and a half) while crossing the 1 million mark!  

Having consistently delivered on our promise of a high-quality, scalable, affordable, and customizable POI solution, we have generated surging demand across a host of sectors and have rapidly expanded our coverage to fulfil it. 

Here, we recap some of our successful projects from the last quarter to highlight the diversity of the use cases that we are enabling.  

Big data is a powerful tool for tackling climate change – humanity’s greatest challenge in the 21st century. Geospatial data is a form of Big Data that is drastically improving mitigation/adaptation strategies for climate change and increasing the likelihood that we collectively accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals. By giving businesses and governments a firm understanding of evolving mobility patterns and spatial relationships, geospatial intelligence can decrease resource consumption, lower pollution and carbon emissions, enhance our resilience to climate-induced natural disasters, and more.  

Researchers, businesses, and government agencies leverage mobile location and Point-of-Interest (POI) data to advance sustainability. Let's look at some of these use cases. 

A few weeks ago, we announced that Quadrant had collected 250,000 POIs through Geolancer. Today, we are excited to share that we have doubled the size of our database to over half a million POIs!  

The increasing demand for Geolancer's manually collected, recent, and attribute-rich data has encouraged our rapid expansion. Besides hitting the half-million mark, we are happy to report that three of the world's top 5 mapping companies are now leveraging Geolancer's industry-leading POI data.

Besides rapid growth, we also have other exciting news to share.

As a proxy for human mobility within the physical world, raw location data provides unparalleled insights into people’s behaviors and needs. Businesses harness such intelligence to boost performance while governments and non-profit organizations leverage it to execute people-centric development programs.   

However, the location data industry is teeming with issues (obscure supply chains, poor quality control, inflexible business practices, an abundance of non-compliant data, etc.). These factors make it extremely challenging for data scientists and analysts to generate actionable intelligence.   

We’ve crafted a solution brief that details all these problems and elaborates on how Quadrant is solving them through our industry-leading location data offering. The brief also contains use cases and customer success stories with proven results for various use cases.