Point of Interest Data | 100M+ POIs Worldwide | Foursquare
The most powerful & precise POI data
Unlock precise venues in rich detail with Foursquare Places
What makes Foursquare Places unique
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.
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Outdated POI data can be costly.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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.