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Singapore country illustration, v53
Administrative boundary courtesy of geoBoundaries (https://www.geoboundaries.org), derived from Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority no-sea subzone data, representative year 2016. Accessed 4 October 2026. The boundary is a destination illustration, not a survey or a current coastal-reclamation record. It does not imply agency endorsement of CGS.
The source-specific data licence is the Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. The geoBoundaries derivative product and citation terms are CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. These Singapore terms are separate from the public-domain Natural Earth geometry used for the other fifteen country icons.
Source geometry is available without charge at https://stores.communitygrocerystore.com/stores/assets/countries/singapore-source.json. This is the complete original GeoJSON from the pinned geoBoundaries release: https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/raw/9469f09/releaseData/gbOpen/SGP/ADM0/geoBoundaries-SGP-ADM0-all.zip. Source archive SHA-256: 4b0172875a1f56853db2f31651ada2e7ac8b1cba5cd2f3b90afe8b1c2b03166d. Metadata: https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/SGP/ADM0/.
CGS modifications: project all twelve original polygon rings using spherical Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on longitude103.8°, latitude1.35°; uniformly fit within rectangle(8,8,224,144) of a 240×160 SVG; simplify each ring using Douglas-Peucker with 0.18 SVG-unit tolerance, splitting closed rings in half; omit rings below0.10 square SVG units; round coordinates to two decimal places. Fill uses the even-odd rule. No geographic boundary was hand drawn. Preserve the attribution, licence references and source availability when redistributing this Singapore artwork.
The global directory data comes from Overture Maps Places, release 2026-08-19.0, obtained from its official Azure distribution and processed on 15 September 2026. Every one of the release's 16 Places partitions was scanned. The extraction found 855,285 grocery and food-market candidates in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Source-scan completion does not establish an exhaustive, independently verified or real-time inventory of actual stores.
The full import stage retains 813,895 validated records, including records held for scope review and explicit exclusions. It rejects 41,390 records with recorded reasons. Only active records classified include appear in the eligible exports and public review sample. data/global-directory/coverage.json reports the final country totals; data/global-directory/verification.json records the count and export-integrity checks. The offline review contains a labelled sample of 24 eligible source records per country, not the full dataset.
Upstream datasets present in the validated stage are Meta, Microsoft, BrightQuery, DAC, RenderSEO, Foursquare, AllThePlaces, Overture and Overture-signals. Source metadata preserves per-record providers and applicable combined licenses. Records can combine a place provider with Overture confidence and operating-status metadata.
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| Foursquare | Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0.txt) and accompanying Foursquare-NOTICE.txt |
| AllThePlaces | CC0 1.0 (CC0-1.0.txt) |
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CGS changes, 15 September 2026: CGS selected grocery/food-market categories and the eight configured source countries; converted point bounding-box coordinates to latitude/longitude fields; removed upstream provider record IDs; normalized names, whitespace, addresses and country representation; rejected records that failed address, licensing, duplicate or other import validation; assigned deterministic CGS identifiers; and added separate eligibility decisions and initially unjoined CGS status. The public eligible exports omit inactive, excluded and held records. Human-readable CSV cells starting with spreadsheet formula markers are escaped as text; NDJSON preserves the normalized store facts. No store logos or descriptions were collected, no third-party business was contacted, and this source import establishes no CGS participation or ownership/Google Business verification.
Six-country expansion, 4 October 2026
CGS additionally processed Overture Maps Places, release 2026-09-23.1, from the official Azure distribution for New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore and Malaysia. All 16 Places partitions were scanned. The extraction selected 70,964 candidate records; normalization retained 65,762 records and rejected 5,202 records with recorded reasons. These are source-processing counts, not the number of published listings or an exhaustive inventory of real businesses.
CGS changes, 4 October 2026: CGS selected the six countries and food-store, market and farm categories under policy 2026-10-countries-52; normalized names, addresses and coordinates; assigned deterministic CGS identifiers; and retained source licensing and classification metadata. The optional import publishes only active, policy-included records meeting a minimum confidence of 0.8 and postal-format checks. Potential duplicate businesses, uncertain categories and other held records remain unpublished for review. Existing listings, claims, CGS memberships and merchant changes are preserved; newly imported listings begin as not joined. Source confidence and address checks do not establish business ownership, participation in CGS or independent verification of store details.
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