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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 160 shopping
Best shopping in Chennai
The 10 most notable shopping in Chennai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Decathlon Omr Padur
Survey No 458 And 459
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.502, percentile 100 of 160
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2
Kohler Authorized Dealer, White Rose
No 21/9, Karpagam Gardens, Besant Avenue Rd, Adyar
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.432, percentile 99.37 of 160
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3
Karnawat Tarpaulin
No 19, Ramanan Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.409, percentile 98.74 of 160
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4
Comfort Point
C-37. 2nd Avenue, Anna Nagar – West
354 m from Thirumangalam metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.389, percentile 98.11 of 160
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5
Capillatura
Tondiarpet High Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.375, percentile 97.48 of 160
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6
Old is Gold Store
B 53, 1st Main Rd
463 m from Indira Nagar railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.370, percentile 96.86 of 160
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7
Carl Zeiss-Turakhia Opticians
No 11A, Kurinji Appartment, MG Road, Shastri Nagar, Subramaniam Colony, Adyar
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.352, percentile 96.23 of 160
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8
Lenskart.com Flagship Store at Adyar
Shop No 57, KG Vallencia, First Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Opposite Ramkey TVS
725 m from Kasturba Nagar railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.340, percentile 95.6 of 160
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9
Carl Zeiss-Turakhia Opticians
No 92, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore
514 m from Mundakanniamman Koil railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.332, percentile 94.97 of 160
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10
Lenskart.com Flagship Store at Anna Nagar
Shop No AB152, Flat No 41B, 4th Avenue, Shanthi Colony, Anna Nagar, Opposite Srivari Sweets
595 m from Anna Nagar Tower metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.316, percentile 94.34 of 160
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
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).