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Product Overview

Inhabit Place helps clients create better places by understanding how public spaces are truly used. The Snowflake product is a curated listing of public place observation data designed for planning, design, benchmarking, monitoring, evaluation, and investment decision-making.

The product combines the same architecture framing used across the platform and listing:

  • site metadata
  • audit metadata
  • movement counts, mode, age and demographic
  • dwell, time spent, behaviour, posture, age and demographic
  • trace paths
  • inventory and facade, quantity and quality
  • photography, spatial changes and points of interest
  • intercept, age and demographic, standardised questionnaire capturing sentiment, behaviour and needs
  • observations, spatial changes and site insight

What makes the product useful

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  • It is grounded in real-world observation rather than desktop-only inference.
  • It combines spatial, behavioural, and qualitative evidence in one governed product.
  • It supports repeat monitoring, before-and-after analysis, and benchmarking across comparable places.
  • It creates a pathway from sample evaluation into commissioned site audits and broader commercial coverage.

Who this documentation is for

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This documentation is aimed at:

  • analysts and GIS teams using the Snowflake listing directly
  • planners, transport teams, and place managers evaluating the product
  • commercial and delivery teams who need to understand the listing scope before commissioning new work

How to read the docs

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  1. Start with Getting Started in Snowflake.
  2. Review Data Model and Join Keys.
  3. Use Dataset Reference for table-level details.
  4. Run the examples in Sample SQL.
  5. Read Commission a Site Audit if you want bespoke coverage or a new audit program.

Current publication scope

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The initial sample listing focuses on curated tabular and geospatial datasets. Governed plan image links are included where relevant. Photo and video media are not included in the sample, but can be made available as required as part of the paid offering.