Well this is something I never would have expected: Foursquare has decided to open source their entire location dataset (over 100 million places) for anybody to use! And theyβre committing to updating it monthly!
Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community
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Foursquare still exist?
When they open source their data, what is then their value proposition?
they recently announced the end of City Guide but a refocusing on Swarm so it may be that they have new value planned there, but who knows
yep, they still exist. as far as i know, their whole deal since they stopped focusing much on Swarm and City Guide has been selling their location dataset. which means i have no idea what the answer to your question is lol