# Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

<https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/>

- Host: [location.foursquare.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/location.foursquare.com/)
- Saved: November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20T13:56:13Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/83583d116f41/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/83583d116f41.json

## What Jamie wrote

Very cool to see a giant database like this being open sourced for everyone to use! Well done Foursquare! 👏 I found this via Simon Willison and it was cool to see what he [did so easily with this data](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/).

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