Places

The most powerful
& precise POI data

Unlock precise venues in rich detail with Foursquare Places

What makes Foursquare Places unique

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    Best-in-class methodology

    Foursquare’s Places Engine leverages advanced machine learning to synthesize 16B+ check-ins, authoritative third-party data, web crawls, and Superuser validation, ensuring unparalleled breadth and accuracy.

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    Fresh data

    Outdated POI data can be costly. Foursquare’s Places Engine continuously updates our dataset, rapidly reflecting real-world changes for the most accurate, up-to-date POI data

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    Global coverage, in-depth detail

    Foursquare Places provides 100M+ points of interest across 200+ countries, with unmatched detail including 50+ attributes like location, chain, hours, social media, tips, photos, and popularity

100M+

Global POIs

50+

Core & rich attributes

1100+

Venue categories

200+

Countries & territories

1B+

Photos, tips, & reviews

16B+

User check-ins

Places in action

Enhance revenue opportunities, marketing programs, and product strategies with Places location data.
  • Build location and map features

    Enhance the UX by providing your end users with rich location features that display nearby places and fuel recommendation engines.

  • Competitive intelligence

    Stay ahead of the competition by mapping out the current landscape and identifying areas of opportunity.

  • Site selection

    Leverage location intelligence to make informed decisions for opening and closing locations.

  • Enrich your POI database

    Easily append place attributes to your own database to gain deeper insight into your customers and business.

  • Transaction mapping and cleansing

    Give your transaction and merchant data the context it needs by linking it to POIs with Foursquare’s Store ID Attribute.

Our tiers

Places data to fit your needs

FSQ OS Places

Open source access to POI data for flexible use to build location-driven projects.

Ideal for:

  • projects requiring basic geospatial insights for analysis or to build capabilities

POI

100M+ points-of-interest available across 200+ countries & territories

DELIVERY

Easy access via S3

ATTRIBUTES

Core attributes, such as address, contact information, category, & more

Places Pro

A comprehensive POI dataset delivering accurate data and reliable location data

Ideal for:

  • foundational business insights
  • mapping services
  • targeted B2B lead generation

POI

100M+ points-of-interest available across 200+ countries & territories

DELIVERY

Delivery via JSON, TSV, or Parquet shared daily, weekly, or monthly

Access via S3, SFTP, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, or ADX

Delivery via flat file or API

ATTRIBUTES

Core attributes, plus additional standard attributes included with Pro, such as census block ID, neighborhood, chain ID, parent ID, & more

Places Premium

Premium attributes to support sophisticated location-based solutions

Ideal for:

  • consumer & competitive research
  • enhanced operational insights
  • visual analysis of neighborhoods and venues

POI

100M+ points-of-interest available across 200+ countries & territories

DELIVERY

Delivery via JSON, TSV, or Parquet shared daily, weekly, or monthly

Access via S3, SFTP, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, or ADX

Delivery via flat file or API

ATTRIBUTES

Core & standard attributes, such as address, contact info, chain ID, social media, category, & more

20 premium attributes only available with Places Premium, such as popular hours, photos, reviews, & more

Client spotlight

Redfin
Yahoo!
Nextdoor
ABinBev
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Redfin provides valuable neighborhood information for homebuyers

Partnering with Foursquare Places, Redfin has been able to include information about grocery stores, shopping, restaurants, parks, and more to the Home Details page for every real estate listing.

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Yahoo! JAPAN keep consumers informed during COVID-19

“The breadth of POIs and data points included helped us to increase our popular hour graph coverage and meet our users’ needs to avoid crowded places,” said Masaki Mizutani, Manager of Yahoo! JAPAN Map App.

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Nextdoor enhances a diverse range of business practices

Nextdoor leveraged FSQ Places to enhance their app functionality and business processes to fuel in-app local business discovery, simplify the verification and onboarding of new businesses, and improve direct and email marketing.

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AB InBev discovers new points of sale

“The robust information from FSQ’s Places database not only helps us prioritize logical points of sale like bars and restaurants to target but also pinpoints innovative non-traditional locations such as barbershops that are becoming more and more valuable to our business,” said the AB InBev Global Team.

Power your business with trusted, high-quality POI data

Location data is hard to get right. See why data professionals trust Foursquare’s global POI database to fuel their business.