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Currently Frames and Spots are the most common way to understand most OOH advertising. As such, there are API endpoints that accept frames id and spot ids as optional or required parameters. For digital inventory it is common to have multiple spot ids that correspond to a single frame ID. In general, the legacy “Geopath Panel ID” corresponds to the Spot ID within the new database.
For Roadside inventory that was entered into the Geopath system before February 2022, it was very common for digital inventory to have one Spot ID that matched the Frame ID, and with static inventory for the single Spot ID to match the Frame ID. This was because of a legacy process that started with a flat data schema before entering the newer nested structure as detailed above. Since February 2022, this legacy process was deprecated, and now data is moving directly into the new model. As a result, since each inventory level has it’s own identifier, these each operate on their own database sequences, which means that the frame_id will not match any of the spot_ids that may be linked to it. Geopath does not recommend treating the Frame IDs and Spot IDs as interchangeable.
Each Geopath ID is immutable and will not be reused.
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