Build better app experiences with industry leading geospatial APIs and SDKs
Built to meet your needs
Retail rewards apps
Guide active deal seekers that want to optimize their budget and discover new products.
The Movement SDK helps to deliver rewards at the right place and right time. Increase and audit data quality for your marketing and competitive analytics offerings too.
Take advantage of our Personalized Places API to help consumers discover new stores, venues and products based on their tastes and user generated content.
Travel tracking & recommendation apps
Help travelers who want guidance from local experts on places to stay and things to do on their vacation.
Create personalized travel recommendations with our User Generated Content (UGC) APIs to generate Lists to tag restaurants for future trips, Tastes to generate recommendations based on users’ interests.
Use our Movement SDK for snap-to-place place identification, integrations for taxi coordination, and more.
Restaurant recommendation apps
Enable people who are looking for a restaurant, whether they want takeout or a planned in-advance dinner.
Jump-start personalization during user app onboarding by integrating our Tastes API with your customer data platform to maintain a detailed user persona profile based on user interests.
Using our Check-ins API, enhance customer trust by verifying their arrival at the correct pickup spot, improving their mobile ordering experience.
Getting started guides
Set up your FSQ developer console
Put the most trusted, independent location data and technology platform to work for your business.
Get started with the Places API
New to the Foursquare Places API? Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. In just a few simple steps, you’ll be up and running with your first API call in no time!
Get started with Foursquare Studio
Using Foursquare Studio, you can create powerful geospatial visualizations that you can share with the world.
Developer tools
API demos
View working web experiences leveraging our most popular API endpoints, including code samples.
View demos
Geospatial data catalog
Explore a growing list of geospatial datasets provided by Foursquare Studio and our partners.
View catalog
API explorer
View working code examples and make authenticated API requests with full responses.
Explore API
Studio map community
Interact with a wide array of Studio Maps created by Studio engineers and other community members.
Explore maps
API status
Real-time info on the uptime and status of the Foursquare Developer Console and our API endpoints.
Check current API status
Studio map playground
Explore the Studio Map SDK in an interactive sandbox before implementing any code.
Learn more
Foursquare Developer Community
Find solutions, share ideas and discuss all things geospatial through our dedicated community of developers on Discord and Slack.
