Foursquare Technology · 02 / 07
Places
Structured global venue graph
Overview
Publicly described capability
Places is publicly described as a global dataset of physical venues, with attributes, categories and hierarchical relationships that turn coordinates into commercially meaningful context.
Role
Architectural position
Provides the venue vocabulary that other products interpret consumer signals against.
Capabilities
Publicly described features
◆Global venue coverage with rich metadata
◆Category and chain resolution
◆Nearby, geosearch and match APIs
◆Foundation dataset for other Foursquare products
Integration