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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset
I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …
This base layer of 100mm+ global places of interest ("POI") includes 22 core attributes (see schema here) that will be updated monthly and available for commercial use under the Apache 2.0 license framework. This got back 4,180,424 - that number is similar for each file, suggesting around 104,000,000 records total. The I ran this query to retrieve 1,000 places from that first file as newline-delimited JSON:
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