2024 has been transformative for Location.Foursquare as we advanced our mission to simplify the complexity of working with geospatial data. Our initiatives resonated strongly with the industry: - We open-sourced our Places dataset, receiving overwhelmingly positive responses from

In 2024, we unleashed unprecedented product velocity and innovation at Location.Foursquare by embracing a builder-first culture through the following changes: 1) We restructured our product development organization, eliminating traditional hierarchies and the product management

Checkout our Jan release of FSQ OS Places on Hugging Face and SnowflakeDB

The latest Location.Foursquare OS Places update delivers measurable data quality improvements, reflecting our active engagement with community feedback and swift implementation of suggested enhancements to better serve our users' needs.

Excited to share that Reprompt has joined the Foursquare Places ecosystem as our first LLM-powered Placemaker Agent, combining AI agents with crowd-sourced human oversight. Hear more from Foursquare CTO Vikram Gundeti about this integration in our blog: eu1.hubs.ly/H0g4GbZ0

Our CEO Gary Little gave great insights in his conversation with Alys Key for Digital Frontier! 🗺️ He shares how Foursquare is evolving with the transition from Foursquare Swarm (formerly City Guide) to Swarm by Foursquare while staying true to our mission of connecting people with the world around them.

I am excited to share our milestone on kepler.gl 3.1 release - adding support for DuckDB integration, LLM assistant with models from OpenAI, deepseep, Ollama, and map rendering PMTiles. Still free, still browser only.

March release of Location.Foursquare OS Places is out with more quality updates!

KeplerGL 3.1.1 is here with a lot of quality-of-life improvements.

In the April release of our OS Places dataset, we tested our ability to make targeted coverage and quality improvements in a specific region using a new workflow that brings together several components: - A brand new harmonization engine (which matches ingested sources to

You know when an app recommends a spot that’s totally off? 🤔 Like suggesting a picnic in the rain or a coffee shop… that’s closed? This new blog post—written by our CTO Vikram Gundeti and Nate Folkert on the Foursquare team, and John Baker and Mark Roy at AWS—shows how

“What’s good to eat right here?” 😋 Now you make your agents spatially aware with the Foursquare Places MCP Server. ✨ Check out this demo of Claude using the Foursquare Places MCP Server to deliver situationally aware and highly personalized responses based on: 📍 Where a

AI Tools for Engineering Productivity — Lessons from a Year of Experiments A lot of the chatter around AI tools is centered around vibe coding (rightfully so), but that is just one part of the puzzle. In reality, for small-to-medium teams building complex systems, the path to

Marketers and data teams, are you spending more time looking at data than acting on it? 🧐 Join our CTO Vikram Gundeti on June 3rd at 1PM EDT as part of an AWS-hosted webinar that explores how leading brands are accelerating attribution, campaign measurement, and time-to-insight

When coordinates and zip codes don’t match, or addresses don’t reflect how people actually move through space, everything built on top becomes unreliable. In our new series on FSQ OS Places, hear from our CTO Vikram Gundeti on how we’re engineering a more accurate, transparent

🌍 The June release of our OS Places dataset is here! Available now on HuggingFace, Snowflake, Kinetica, S3, and more, this release includes: - Creation of “unresolved_flags” attribute, a set of quality issue flags reported by Placemakers, human or agent, that require further

Meet the all-new Swarm for iOS. Redesigned from the ground up to make it easier than ever to check in, share your adventures, and discover new places.

Swarm has a brand new look, with all the things you know and love ✨ Smarter check-ins, a new discovery tab, and a fresh design to make logging and sharing your adventures easier than ever. See what’s new and explore with Swarm 🐝

La nueva actualización de la app Swarm está muy bien re-diseñada, se las recomiendo. El check-in tipo Foursquare se pondrá de moda nuevamente. Swarm by Foursquare

In my experience so far, Perplexity always nails the user experience, but ChatGPT's answers feel deeper and well researched, and nothing can beat Anthropic as a writing assistant. Google Gemini is so far the best in video understanding. I'm yet to put Grok to