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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/...

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.

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.

While I got you here, for the love of god, please recompile Swarm app with a modern iOS version and give us a decent photo picker 🙏

Our commitment to the Foursquare user community outlined in the note we sent to the super users of our apps: location.foursquare.com/placemaker-a...