What makes Foursquare Places unique?
Global coverage, in-depth detail
Foursquare Places offers 120M+ points of interest across 200+ countries and territories. The level of detail that Places provides is superior, encompassing more than 115 attributes including location, chain, hours of operation, social media presence, tips, photos, popularity, and more.
Accurate data from trusted sources
Only Foursquare brings you insights from 16B+ explicit check-ins from our consumer-facing apps, combined with authoritative third-party sources. Our proprietary ML models cluster and harmonize each data input and combine that with human verification methods to ensure the most accurate POI data.
Fresh data
Making decisions based on outdated POI data can be costly. Foursquare delivers 2.4+ million updates to our data per month, giving you the freshest and most accurate data in today’s ever-changing landscape.
Global POIs
Countries and territories
Rich and core attributes
Venue categories
Photos, tips, and reviews
User-verified check-ins
Industry leaders are powering their businesses with Places data
Places data in action
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.
Places unlocked
Rich, accurate POI data
115+ data attributes including location, brand and category, reviews, photos, and more. View the full data schema.
Scalable Data, scalable pricing
Pay only for the data you need at the frequency you need it (daily, weekly, or monthly). Add more countries and rich attributes as your needs grow.
Ready-to-use data
Easily integrate POIs into your workflows or enrich and append your existing data. Build apps using Foursquare’s Places API.
How brands use Foursquare Places
AB InBev relies on Foursquare Places to discover new points of sale
“As AB InBev continues to focus on growth across Central and South American markets, Foursquare has been an invaluable partner. 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.
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Foursquare Places helps Yahoo! JAPAN keep consumers informed during COVID-19
“When it came to keeping our users healthy, safe, and informed, Foursquare’s Places Database was an incredibly valuable tool. 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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Redfin turns to Places to provide valuable neighborhood information for homebuyers
In an effort to provide more value to potential homebuyers, Redfin wanted to enhance the data included within their real estate listings. From 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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Nextdoor relies on Places to enhance a diverse range of business practices
Nextdoor was in need of robust, accurate, global POI data to power a range of business use cases. By leveraging Foursquare Places, Nextdoor was able 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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Power your business with the highest quality POI data
Location data is hard to get right. See why data professionals trust Foursquare’s global POI database to fuel their business.