Mark Litwintschik • 11/21/2024

Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest

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This technical article explores Foursquare's release of its 104-million-point Points of Interest (POI) dataset as a free resource. It discusses the value of high-quality POI data for geocoding, compares it to alternatives like Overture and OSM, and provides a detailed walkthrough of the technical setup and tools (DuckDB, QGIS, Ubuntu) used to analyze and visualize the dataset.

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