Place types
place_typesrelease v0.7.1CC0 1.0
About
The place type vocabulary (spec/vocab/place_types.csv): id segment, family, clickable buffer, salience, Wikidata class.
- How far to trust it
- The release passed its automatic checks before it was published (what is checked). A hand check by the editor of qipu data is under way: 36 of 38 items checked so far were right, on votes, money, places and the map. A row says what the record states; the scanned page is the authority. Details
- Licence
- CC0 1.0: use it for anything, no permission needed. The scans and other sources keep their own rights.
- Version
- v0.7.1, published 21 October 2026. A published release is never changed; corrections come as a new release.
Technical details
- Table
- place_types
- Rows
- 82
- Columns
- 10
- Parquet
- place_types.parquet, < 0.1 MB
- Version
- v0.7.1, 21 October 2026
- Licence
- CC0 1.0. Sources keep their own rights.
Rows
Rows by family
| Value | Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| regulatory | 9 | 11.0% | |
| service_district | 7 | 8.5% | |
| transport | 7 | 8.5% | |
| administrative | 6 | 7.3% | |
| street_network | 6 | 7.3% | |
| cadastral | 6 | 7.3% | |
| hydro | 6 | 7.3% | |
| institution | 5 | 6.1% | |
| ephemeral | 5 | 6.1% | |
| terrain | 4 | 4.9% | |
| electoral | 4 | 4.9% | |
| geology | 3 | 3.7% |
Rows by broader_type
Rows by default_geom
Method and accuracy
No accuracy measure for this table yet.
The release passed its automatic checks before it was published (what is checked). A hand check by the editor of qipu data is under way: 36 of 38 items checked so far were right, on votes, money, places and the map. A row says what the record states; the scanned page is the authority.
Columns 10
| Column | Type | Can be empty | Privacy | Public copy | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| type_id | VARCHAR | no | none | as is | Type name, as used in places.type_id. |
| id_segment | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | Segment used in place ids (qipu:<city>/place/<id_segment>/...); frozen once used. |
| family | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | Group for filtering (regulatory, transport, hydro, ...); not a hierarchy.Values address, administrative, building, cadastral, coast, electoral, ephemeral, geology, hydro, informal, institution, landmark ... |
| label | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | Readable name. |
| broader_type | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | The broader type (street, address).Values address, street |
| default_geom | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | Usual geometry: polygon, line, point or none.Values line, none, point, polygon |
| hit_buffer_m | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | How far in metres from a point or line a click still hits it. Values 0, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 8 |
| salience | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | Ranking prior (0-1) for click-anywhere, used after specificity.Values 0.05, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0 |
| wikidata_class | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | Wikidata class, where sure. Values Q12280, Q123705, Q131681, Q15243209, Q166620, Q190928, Q194195, Q22698, Q23397, Q23442, Q25391, Q28575 ... |
| definition | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | What the type covers. |
Privacy: what kind of text the column holds. Public copy: what the published file does with it; the embargo covers records after 1951.
Preview
| type_id | id_segment | family | label | broader_type | default_geom | hit_buffer_m | salience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| building | building | building | Building | — | polygon | 0 | 1.0 |
| former_municipality | municipality | administrative | Former municipality | — | polygon | 0 | 0.5 |
| federal_reservation | federal | administrative | Federal land | — | polygon | 0 | 0.7 |
| supervisorial_district | sup-district | electoral | Supervisorial district | — | polygon | 0 | 0.6 |
| landmark_site | landmark-site | regulatory | Designated landmark site | — | polygon | 0 | 0.9 |
| watershed | watershed | hydro | Watershed | — | polygon | 0 | 0.3 |
| exposition_grounds | exposition | ephemeral | Exposition grounds | — | polygon | 0 | 0.8 |
| landmark | landmark | landmark | Named place / venue | — | point | 15 | 1.0 |
8 of 10 columns shown. Eight rows sampled at build time. Hover a shortened value for all of it.
Download
| Format | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Parquet | place_types.parquet ↗ | < 0.1 MB |
| SQLite (all tables) | qipu_sf.db ↗ | 6.44 GB |
SQL
Run in the SQL console (DuckDB in the browser, over the Parquet file).