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Build better app experiences with leading geospatial APIs and SDKs
Scalable and privacy-compliant location-aware experiences for your customers.
Built to meet your needs
Retail rewards apps
Guide active deal seekers that want to optimize their budget and discover new products.
The Movement SDK helps to deliver rewards at the right place and right time. Increase and audit data quality for your marketing and competitive analytics offerings too.
Enhance your retail rewards app by leveraging Places API for seamless user check-ins, ensuring accurate visit verification and increased customer engagement.
Travel tracking & recommendation apps
Help travelers easily map out and follow their itineraries and share stories about their travel experiences.
Places API helps with precise location searches, seamless geotagging and check-ins, and efficient trip planning, ensuring a more intuitive and enriched travel experience for your end-users.
Use our Movement SDK for snap-to-place place identification, integrations for taxi coordination, and more.
Ride-hailing apps
Empower end-users seeking efficient, safe, and seamless travel experience.
Movement SDK ensures precise pick-ups and drop-off with real-time location tracking, ensuring ride accuracy and efficiency.
Use Places API to offer end-users quick and intuitive location searches, accurate address data, and effortless ride check-ins, delivering an unmatched ride experience every time.
Our suite of SDKs & APIs
SDKs
Leverage our SDKs to not only engage app users by delivering context-aware content in real-time, but also visualize and analyze geospatial data on a planetary scale.
Movement SDK
Embed foreground and background location awareness into your iOS and Android apps, and engage users with contextual content in real-time.
Studio Data SDK
Allow your web applications to access geospatial assets, invoke analytics services and start pipeline tasks for bulk processing of geospatial data.
Studio Map SDK
Designed for building custom geospatial web applications. Control, embed and customize Studio maps on web pages or Jupyter notebooks.
APIs
Leverage our APIs to build location-driven features in your app or website. Drive user engagement and retention through access to millions of high-quality and accurate POIs available to you in real-time.
Access global POI data and rich content from 100k+ trusted sources via our Places API for real-time venue search, discovery, and ranking.
Search & Data
Returns places based on user-submitted keywords. Matches against names, categories, tips, and tastes.
Geotagging & Check-in
Provide POI tagging that supports check-in based on where your end-user’s device is and what is around them.
Autocomplete
Returns a list of top addresses, places, geos, and/or searches partially matching the provided keyword and location inputs.
Ask API
Returns recommended places based on user-submitted natural language queries. Matches against names, categories, tips, and tastes.
Place Match
Match large datasets to Foursquare POIs to return standardized Place IDs, enriched attributes, and confidence-based results.
Transaction Match
Match merchant strings to Foursquare POIs to understand real mappable places with a stable Place ID.
Getting started guides
Set up your FSQ developer console
Put the most trusted, independent location data and technology platform to work for your business.
Get started with the Places API
New to the Foursquare Places API? Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. In just a few simple steps, you’ll be up and running with your first API call in no time!
Get started with Foursquare Studio
Using Foursquare Studio, you can create powerful geospatial visualizations that you can share with the world.