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Metro Areas Release Notes

Product type
Data
Portfolio
Enrich
Product family
Enrich Boundaries > Community Boundaries
Product
Metro Boundaries > Metro Areas
Version
Latest
ft:locale
en-US
Product name
Metro Areas
ft:title
Metro Areas Release Notes
Copyright
2026
First publish date
2015
ft:lastEdition
2026-05-04
ft:lastPublication
2026-05-04T11:02:01.489733
L1_Product_Gateway
Enrich
L2_Product_Segment
Data
L3_Product_Brand
Precisely Boundaries
L4_Investment_Segment
Precisely Boundaries
L5_Product_Group
Community Boundaries
L6_Product_Name
Metro Boundaries

This release includes ongoing maintenance that ensures metro boundaries align with Neighborhood Boundaries product offerings in the following areas:

Country/Continent/Region Focus Areas
United States of America Birmingham, AL

Huntsville, AL

Richmond, VA

Canada Charlottestown, PEI

Halifax, NS

Trois-Rivières, QC

Shawnigan, QC

Rest of World No changes were introduced in this release

The notation WRL was replaced by GLB in the 2024.05 global release of Metro Areas. This change affects the product delivery file, folder names, and file/table names:

Delivery file

  • Example - former naming convention: METRO_AREAS_WRL_202311_<FORMAT>.zip
  • Example - new naming convention: METRO_AREAS_GLB_202405_<FORMAT>.zip

Folder names

  • Example - former naming convention: METRO_AREAS_WRL_202311_<FORMAT>
  • Example - new naming convention: METRO_AREAS_GLB_202405_<FORMAT>

File/table names

  • Example - former naming convention: metro_objects_wrl.<format>
  • Example - new naming convention: metro_objects_glb.<format>

Contact Precisely's Global Support team (support@precisely.com) for technical assistance.