Places Insights release notes

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See the Getting Started documentation for information on how to get started using the Places Insights.

September 04, 2025

The Places Insights datasets have moved from data clean rooms to BigQuery data exchange listings. See the migration guide.

Address fields in the dataset schema separate the id and name fields into discrete string or string array fields. See the migration guide.

July 16, 2025

The PLACES_COUNT_PER_TYPE, PLACES_COUNT_PER_GEO, and PLACES_COUNT_PER_H3 functions now support the sample_place_ids column in the response. This column, of type ARRAY<STRING>, includes up to 250 place IDs for each element in the response.

For Place count functions, reduced the minimum search area from 500 meters by 500 meters (250,000 m²) to 40.0 meters by 40.0 meters (1600 m²).

May 13, 2025

Announcing the Experimental release of Place count functions for Places Insights. Place count functions are predefined SQL queries that run in BigQuery and don't enforce a minimum count threshold. These functions are complementary to places data queries and the underlying data for both the dataset and the functions are the same.

April 01, 2025

Announcing the Preview release of Places Insights.

Place names and granular address data such as house number, road names, and zip codes are not available in the datasets.