# Data Product Documentation

Find help, follow step-by-step guides, and learn more about how to power your business forward with rich POI data.

## Explore our products

Learn more about our suite of data products.

### Places

Enrich your understanding of locations to help you drive business decisions or develop engaging user experiences.

- [Places Data Types](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/places-data-overview)
- [Places Data Delivery Options](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/places-delivery-overview)
- [FAQs](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/faqs-overview)
- [Release Notes](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/release-notes)

### Placemaker Tools

Foursquare Placemakers are the guardians and curators of our Places dataset – playing a crucial role in shaping how people understand and interact with physical spaces in our digital world.

- [Become a Placemaker](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/become-a-placemaker)
- [Placemaker Best Practices](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/placemaker-best-practices)
- [Get Started](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/get-started-with-the-placemaker-tools)
- [Join Discord](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/placemaker-discord)

## Places Open Source Data Schema

Foursquare Places offers 120M+ points of interest across 200+ countries and territories. We combine ground truth datasets, authoritative third-party sources, and our first-party data to provide the most accurate data available.

- Access free data to accelerate geospatial innovation and insights
- 24 Core attributes including place info, details and categories
- Rich attributes are available via the Places Pro & Premium packages
- [View Data Schema](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/places-os-data-schema)

## Attributes & Delivery

### Places Categories

Foursquare attempts to apply accurate and granular categorization to each of our POI records. In order to accomplish this, we leverage our own proprietary taxonomy of 1K+ categories.

[Read more](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/categories)

### Places Chains

Foursquare has created explicit associations between national and local brands and their brick-and-mortar locations. Users can query the Places dataset explicitly by chain name or chain ID to obtain a list of stores representing that chain.

[Read more](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/chains)

### Delivery Options

Determine which type of access - Open Source, Flat File or API - is best suited for your business needs. While you can access Places data via API or flat file, our API was designed for specific use cases common to web and app developers vs data delivered weekly or monthly, available via flat file.

[Read more](https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/place-delivery-options)

# Power your business forward with rich POI data

Location data is hard to get right. See why data professionals trust Foursquare’s leading, global POI database.

[Schedule a demo](https://location.foursquare.com/contact-us/)