A free, open-source dataset containing over 100 million points of interest globally.
API Access
Est. Price
~$57,500/yr est.
Update Frequency
monthly
Pricing Tiers
1
Regions
1
Quality SignalsB
Freshness
Recently enriched
Complete
75%
API
API Available
Product Overview
Geospatial Intelligence$$
Offering: Global points-of-interest (POI) datasets, foot traffic analytics, and developer-focused location tracking SDKs.
Best for: Retail analysts and marketing teams performing site selection, competitive benchmarking, and consumer behavior modeling.
Benefits
- Comprehensive global POI coverage
- Integrated visualization and analytics platform
- Flexible delivery via API and cloud storage
- Strong developer ecosystem with mobile SDKs
Drawbacks
⚠ High enterprise pricing for premium data tiers · ⚠ Complexity in managing disparate data productsProduct Intelligence
Value Score
36
quality per $
Coverage
55
geo × freq × depth
Try-ability
35
ease of trial
Product Details
Use Cases
geospatial innovationresearchmappingopen-source development
Coverage
Global
Delivery
APIS3 bucket
Pricing Tiers
Vedex estimate
~$57,500/yr est.
$4,791.67 estimated
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Web Authority
High Authority18 mentions·5 platforms
Academic Papers
8 × 8 pts+64
Hacker News
3 × 4 pts+12
LinkedIn
5 × 2 pts+10
Reddit
1 × 3 pts+3
Blogs & Newsletters
1 × 2 pts+2
Evidence5 sources
Academic Papers
Massive Semantic Trajectories for Understanding POI ...
We further enriched STD by aligning it with Foursquare's Open Source Places dataset, incorporating metadata such as POI coordinates, POI names, ...
Academic Papers
Massive Semantic Trajectories for Understanding POI ...
We accessed the Foursquare Open Source Places dataset via Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/foursquare/fsq-os-places. Foursquare ...
Academic Papers
Massive Semantic Trajectories for Understanding POI Check-ins
We further enriched STD by aligning it with Foursquare's Open Source Places dataset, incorporating metadata such as POI coordinates, POI names, and ...
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About Foursquare Open Source Places
Foursquare Open Source Places is an alternative data product offered by Foursquare, available on discovery. Data is updated monthly. API access is available for programmatic integration. Vedex estimates pricing at roughly $57,500/yr (an estimate, not a vendor-published price).
A free, open-source dataset containing over 100 million points of interest globally.
About Foursquare
Foursquare is a data provider & platform vendor based in New York, NY. Foursquare is a leading location technology company that provides geospatial data, intelligence, and developer tools to help businesses understand real-world human movement and place-based context. By...