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place

A physical location — address, building, city, or point of interest. Used for meeting locations, shipping addresses, store/restaurant locations, headquarters, airports, etc.

Follows the Google Places / Mapbox model: a place IS the thing. A Costco location is a place with feature_type “poi”, hours, rating, and delivery. The company (Costco Inc.) is an organization. The location is a place.

MetadataValue
Pluralplaces
Subtitle fieldfullAddress
IdentitygooglePlaceId, mapboxId
FieldType
fullAddressstring
placeFormattedstring
streetNumberstring
streetstring
neighborhoodstring
localitystring
citystring
districtstring
regionstring
postalCodestring
countrystring
countryCodestring
latitudenumber
longitudenumber
accuracystring
featureTypestring
categoriesstring[]
phonestring
websiteurl
hoursjson
businessStatusstring
ratingnumber
reviewCountinteger
priceLevelstring
timezonestring
mapboxIdstring
wikidataIdstring
googlePlaceIdstring
RelationTarget
brandorganization
offersproduct[]

External standards this shape draws from or aligns with. See Shape design principles for how prior art informs shape design.

  • schema.org/Place + PostalAddress — Our latitude/longitude = geo.latitude/longitude; street/city/region/postalCode/countryCode map to PostalAddress streetAddress/addressLocality/addressRegion/postalCode/addressCountry; hours ≈ openingHoursSpecification; rating/reviewCount ≈ aggregateRating.
  • Google Places API (Place resource) — Practical POI schema. Our googlePlaceId = id; featureType/categories ≈ types/primaryType; businessStatus, priceLevel, rating match directly.
  • GeoJSON (RFC 7946) + ISO 3166-1 — Our latitude/longitude are a GeoJSON Point [lon, lat]; countryCode follows ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
  • uberget_store, search_address, list_addresses, search_stores, list_nearby_stores