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Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

simonwillison.netFoursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial communityI did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …

ahmet alp balkan

@ahmet.dev

21 Nov 2024

It’s amazing they did this. Suddenly anyone can build an app with geotagging locations. I for one would love to add venues to my Bluesky posts.

Vikram Gundeti

@vikramgundeti.bsky.social

30 Nov 2024

There is already a Foursquare API for geotagging, that can be used to do this. Twitter used it in the pre-Elon era. If @bsky.app wants to do this, we would be happy to work with them.