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The location data industry is using multiple sources of data with a varying degree of quality. This means suppliers often have a significant amount of overlapping records. While this does not impact quality or validity of the data, it poses a challenge for buyers who need unique values for their analyses.

Most off-the-shelf vendors leave this unaddressed as it makes their data volumes appear larger. However, when buyers prepare the data for analysis by removing overlaps, they often see a significant drop in overall volumes. 

Earlier this year, we launched the public beta test of our proprietary POI collection and verification app, Geolancer. Aimed at providing up-to-date and manually-verified POI datasets, Geolancer is already helping ride sharing and real estate companies enrich their platforms with a hyper-accurate POI data feed. In this article, we provide a peek behind the curtain and explain how we maintain the high quality of POI data in Geolancer.

The Covid-19 pandemic and following global lockdowns were devastating for the retail industry. Activities like shopping and leisure quickly fell as people’s focus shifted to dealing with a pandemic. Essential retail like grocery, drugstores, and homeware had to adapt quickly to accommodate the needs of the hour, while non-essential retail segments of fashion, sports, beauty, luxury, etc. went into complete disarray.

Whether you are an agency or a business with an established in-house marketing team, your goal is maximising ROI on your marketing and advertising spending.  

Mobile location data can help achieve your KPIs, especially in offline marketing. Using area-based insights you can make profitable marketing investments to improve brand visibility, gain new customers, or increase visits to a physical store. 

The intricate web of connected devices and applications produces a lot of location data. Used in the right manner, accurate and timely geospatial intelligence can be leveraged to boost operational efficiency,  improve government and public services, increase marketing and advertising ROI, and expand services to underserved areas.