{"city":{"slug":"birmingham-gb","name":"Birmingham","country":"GB","country_name":"United Kingdom"},"category":{"key":"discount_store","label":"Discount Store","phrase":"discount shops","family":"shopping"},"candidates":89,"rank":{"method":"curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is","weights":{"attest":0.35,"complete":0.25,"confidence":0.2,"designation":0.4,"fame":-0.15,"chain":-0.3},"limit":"no licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste","anchors":{"wikivoyage":{"status":"validation-only","source":"Wikivoyage (English) editorial listings","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","attribution":"Wikivoyage contributors","gate_m":250,"min_group":10,"matched":5951,"matched_cities":294,"anchors_in_groups":5651,"groups":1554,"cities_in_groups":267,"median_percentile":73.02,"share_top_decile":0.242,"share_rank_1":0.029,"families":{"arts_and_entertainment":{"anchors":1112,"cities":122,"validated":true,"median_percentile":70.83,"share_top_decile":0.221},"food_and_drink":{"anchors":2312,"cities":180,"validated":true,"median_percentile":71.88,"share_top_decile":0.228},"health_care":{"anchors":5,"cities":5,"validated":false},"lifestyle_services":{"anchors":17,"cities":16,"validated":false},"lodging":{"anchors":1442,"cities":235,"validated":true,"median_percentile":76.19,"share_top_decile":0.275},"shopping":{"anchors":528,"cities":110,"validated":true,"median_percentile":76.42,"share_top_decile":0.261},"sports_and_recreation":{"anchors":209,"cities":70,"validated":true,"median_percentile":69.69,"share_top_decile":0.22},"travel_and_transportation":{"anchors":26,"cities":22,"validated":false}},"limit":"An anchor only exists where Wikivoyage and the catalogue name the same place, so the matched set is biased toward well-attested places - which the rank rewards through `attest`. Every number here is a lower bound on the ranking's agreement with editorial selection, not an unbiased estimate of it."},"michelin":{"matched":533,"anchors_in_groups":528,"median_percentile":100,"circular":true,"why":"partly circular: 17 of the 5,951 Wikivoyage anchors carry the designation term this rank rewards (designation +0.40) and sit at a median percentile of 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 matched anchors without it. A validation set that shares a term with the model measures the term, not the model.","designated":{"anchors":17,"median_percentile":99.93},"undesignated":{"anchors":5934,"median_percentile":72.55}},"heritage":{"matched_in_groups":1,"median_percentile":87.5,"note":"one anchor: too few to validate anything"}}},"sources":[{"id":"meta","name":"Meta","licence":"CDLA-Permissive-2.0"},{"id":"microsoft","name":"Microsoft","licence":"CDLA-Permissive-2.0"},{"id":"overture","name":"Overture Maps Foundation","licence":"CDLA-Permissive-2.0"}],"attribution":"Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).","placement":"Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.","no_ratings":"The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.","transit":{"source":"Wikidata","licence":"CC0-1.0","attribution":"Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0).","gate_m":800,"note":"Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures."},"generated":"2026-10-22","places":[{"rank":1,"place_id":"gers:aa167305-fd61-4dee-98dd-980c12469850","name":"Monkeyshu","category":"discount_store","address":"11, The Aldridge depot, Brickyard Rd","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":0.996,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.754,"percentile":100,"photo":null,"transit":null},{"rank":2,"place_id":"gers:d8779e61-70f5-4628-b43b-9179864a5a41","name":"Rocky Vapes Official","category":"discount_store","address":"Woodlands Farm road","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":0.978,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.531,"percentile":98.86,"photo":null,"transit":null},{"rank":3,"place_id":"gers:aaed74db-abb9-4f94-9b2a-1238f9539d0c","name":"Clearance Outlet","category":"discount_store","address":"328B Coventry Rd","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":0.981,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.503,"percentile":97.73,"photo":null,"transit":null},{"rank":4,"place_id":"gers:8d4652b3-d2f0-45dc-9691-3cf98e7bb7d4","name":"Internet Bargains","category":"discount_store","address":"Colmore Row","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":0.971,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.453,"percentile":96.59,"photo":null,"transit":{"qid":"Q800533","name":"Birmingham Moor Street railway station","mode":"rail","distanceM":412}},{"rank":5,"place_id":"gers:2066a92e-1d2c-4986-b66c-e7a7f1a768b4","name":"Quik Save","category":"discount_store","address":"Unit 7 Timberley Ln","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":0.972,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.396,"percentile":95.45,"photo":null,"transit":null},{"rank":6,"place_id":"gers:77db4ba9-f623-489e-a644-8bf0397b841d","name":"Select & Save","category":"discount_store","address":"West Midlands Convenience Stores Ltd, 78 Hill St","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":0.979,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.357,"percentile":94.32,"photo":null,"transit":{"qid":"Q683063","name":"Birmingham New Street railway station","mode":"rail","distanceM":144}},{"rank":7,"place_id":"gers:d147ac4e-f69b-4b58-ad24-fb5cc6eb3ab4","name":"Savers Health And Beauty","category":"discount_store","address":"725 Bristol Road South","sources":["microsoft","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":0.99,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.216,"percentile":93.18,"photo":null,"transit":null},{"rank":8,"place_id":"gers:ca35f962-d4d2-40fe-a0d1-3cd31b3f61d4","name":"B&M Stores","category":"discount_store","address":"Castle Vale Retail Park, Erdington, Birmingham","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":1,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.095,"percentile":92.05,"photo":null,"transit":{"qid":"Q5050006","name":"Castle Bromwich railway station","mode":"rail","distanceM":632}},{"rank":9,"place_id":"gers:af2e9f3f-863a-4b96-8e32-9c52228aaee0","name":"B&M Stores","category":"discount_store","address":"Coppice Lane, Walsall Wood, Walsall","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":1,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.094,"percentile":90.91,"photo":null,"transit":null},{"rank":10,"place_id":"gers:c620a8ac-f58f-449d-9dce-30e461447850","name":"B&M Stores","category":"discount_store","address":"Unit 2G, Solihull Retail Park, Solihull","sources":["meta","overture"],"providers":2,"confidence":1,"website":true,"phone":true,"michelin":false,"score":2.093,"percentile":89.77,"photo":null,"transit":null}]}