Overture POI data for the United Kingdom: a comprehensive, queryable open data product
Patrick Ballantyne, Cillian Berragan

TL;DR
This paper presents a processed, fully-queryable version of the Overture POI dataset for the UK, making it accessible for researchers and enabling new spatial analyses.
Contribution
It provides a ready-to-use, open-access POI dataset for the UK, including code for exploration and subset generation, addressing accessibility issues.
Findings
Dataset has high locational accuracy
Attribute data is comprehensive
Compared favorably with Geolytix supermarket data
Abstract
Point of Interest data that is comprehensive, globally-available and open-access, is sparse, despite being important inputs for research in a number of application areas. New data from the Overture Maps Foundation offers significant potential in this arena, but accessing the data relies on computational resources beyond the skillset and capacity of the average researcher. In this article, we provide a processed version of the Overture places (POI) dataset for the UK, in a fully-queryable format, and provide accompanying code through which to explore the data, and generate other national subsets. In the article, we describe the construction and characteristics of the dataset, before considering how reliable it is (locational accuracy, attribute comprehensiveness), through direct comparison with Geolytix supermarket data. This dataset can support new and important research projects in a…
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TopicsGeographic Information Systems Studies · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Data Management and Algorithms
