Foursquare utilizes three approaches to obtain Places data - human, software, and third-party verification to ensure POI data is consistent, accurate, and fresh.

### Places Attributes
Foursquare’s Places includes core attributes as well as a multitude of rich attributes.

### Categories
Accurate and granular categorization to each of our POI records.

### Chains
Explicit associations between national and local brands and their brick-and-mortar locations.

### Supported Countries
Over 100 million POIs across 247 countries and territories.

Updated 5 months ago