Places filtering
Track-B documentation wave: services category — mandatory Test-1 self-contradiction fix (service-fs-data-lake), Test-3 split, structural + mechanical frontmatter fixes across 17 articles
@@ -12,10 +12,14 @@ audience: public short_description: "A filtering step that keeps only regional-grade institutions from raw civic data, so GIS tier rankings reflect institutional concentration rather than every clinic and community facility." bcsc_class: public-disclosure-safe language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC last_edited: 2026-08-22 last_edited: 2026-09-05 editor: pointsav-engineering paired_with: service-places-filtering.es.md cites: [] references: - id: 1 text: "Point of interest. Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-14." url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_interest" --- [[retail-co-location-tier-methodology|GIS tier rankings]] depend on knowing where regional @@ -24,7 +28,7 @@ places-filtering step keeps only civic and institutional facilities that meet a scale — hospitals, universities, and validated major transport hubs above fixed size thresholds — and consolidates multi-point campus records into a single regional anchor. Local-service density is removed at this stage, so downstream rankings reflect institutional concentration rather than raw facility count. concentration rather than raw facility count.[^1] ## What the filter keeps @@ -58,7 +62,3 @@ campuses to a single anchor) is the stable, public-facing part of the design. - [[service-business-clustering]] — the retail clustering step that runs alongside it - [[service-fs-data-lake]] — the raw civic and retail data this step consumes - [[retail-co-location-tier-methodology]] — the tier methodology the filtered data feeds ## References - [Point of interest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_interest) — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-14