Welcome to Foursquare Places 👋
Use location-based data to understand the context behind a neighborhood or place to enhance business intelligence, enrich your existing database, and ensure access to always-fresh POI data. Our data represents +100 million commercial points-of-interest (POI) worldwide and is rich with real-world information- it’s been updated and validated by millions of consumers.
Places Data
Foursquare utilizes three approaches to obtain Places data - human, software, and third-party verification to ensure POI data is consistent, accurate, and fresh.
How Does it Work?
First party data, ground truth datasets, web resources, and partners with third parties.
Places Attributes
Foursquare’s Places includes core attributes as well as a multitude of rich attributes.
Chains
Explicit associations between national and local brands and their brick-and-mortar locations.
Places Data Delivery
Download places content and customize data to your business needs, delivered as a flat-file delivery via JSON/TSV from or programmatically access data via the Places API.
Place Devliery Options
Determine which type of access - Flat File or API - is best suited for your business needs.
Places Flat File
Get access to 100M+ commercial POI, 200+ countries and territories, and 1100+ venue categories.
Places API
Bring location context into your applications with the speed and reliability you need to scale.
Listing Syndicator Program
Foursquare's listing syndicator partners are trusted to provide high-quality authoritative data.
Submission Guidelines
Learn how to correctly prepare and deliver files to Foursquare Places for ingestion.
Report Data Quality Issues
Learn how to submit feedback on closed, relocated or duplicated businesses.
FAQs
Get the answers to our most common questions regarding usage of Foursquare Places and related topics.
Places FAQs
Find answers to the most common questions regarding the Places product.
Release Notes
Discover the most recent improvements, including the addition of new functionality and other important changes.
Latest Release
Discover the most recent improvements, including the addition of new functionality and other important changes.
Updated 3 months ago