Overview

Places data brings together firmographic venue details from authoritative third-party sources and billions of user-generated photos, tips, and reviews from our decade of experience crowd-sourcing consumer feedback.

Core data and rich data
Enrich your existing venue database with rich, user-generated content
Download fresh, up-to-date venue content verified by humans, software and third parties
Customize data to your business needs:
- Delivered daily, weekly or monthly
- Available via JSON or TSV

Package Types

Determine which Places flat file package is right for you by following a simple three-step process:

Select the countries or regions you’re interested in
Decide if you’d like to add on any rich attribute packages
Decide if you need data on specific categories based on your business needs

Available Countries & Regions

Countries

US
Canada
Mexico
Australia
Brazil
France
UK
Italy
Germany
Japan
Korea

Regions

LATAM
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
MEA
Pacific (Australia & NZ)
SouthEast Asia (Sg/MY/TH/ID/PH/VN)
South Asia (India)
North Asia (Cn/TW/HK)

Standard Package

The Standard Package includes the following Core Attributes:

Venue ID
Venue Name
Translated Venue Name
Latitude/Longitude
Geocodes
Address
Address Extended
DMA
Region
Admin Region
Postal Code
Post Town
Neighborhood
PO Box
Country Code
Locality
Date Created
Date Refreshed
FSQ Category IDs
FSQ Category Labels
FSQ Chain ID
FSQ Chain Name
Parent ID
Subvenue Count
Census Block ID
Closed Bucket

For more details, please see the Core Attributes descriptions.

Add On Options

Rich Attributes

Category Packages

Restaurants/Food & Nightlife
- All Attributes
Retail/Shops & Services
- All Attributes
Travel & Transport
- All Attributes

Delivery

Determine which Places flat file delivery cadence fits your business needs.

Cadence

Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly

Format

Delivered as a TSV file with GZIP compression via Amazon S3. For assistance on how to obtain your user ARN or how to use S3, read this guide or contact your technical account manager at Foursquare.
Provided in compressed, tab-delimited files, one file per country.
- The format and the standard filename convention is as follows:
s3://fsq-partner-orgId/client/DeliveryName/dt=scheduledDeliveryDate/places_countrycode.tsv.gz
Where orgId is a 25-character string unique to your organization.
- Compression is gzip format -- it can be opened with most Windows, Linux, and Mac compression utilities.