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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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.

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We are thrilled to introduce Placemaker Tools for Mobile in beta. With this release, Placemakers can add locations, verify suggested edits, track their contributions, and more, all from their mobile browser. 📱 Sign up to be a Placemaker today & try out the new tools: foursquare.com/placemakers/...

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Our February release of OS Places is now live on @hf.co, Snowflake & S3. Notable additions: - dataset now available in PMTiles format - more efficient geocoordinate partitioning sorting - Removal of 15k POIs with profanity in the name. Full release notes here: docs.foursquare.com/data-product...

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Excited to share my conversation with Lukas Martinelli, CEO - Reprompt, on the future of Places data. We explored various topics related to our new Places Engine, including how we are differentiated from other open initiatives like OpenStreetMap and Overture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oiH...

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The Future of Place data with Foursquare CTO, Vikram Gundeti

YouTube video by Reprompt AI

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We are excited to introduce Kepler.gl 3.1, including enterprise-grade features like an embedded @duckdb.org Engine, an LLM Assistant for visual analysis with support for OpenAI, DeepSeek AI and local Ollama models, and PM Tiles support: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The latest 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. (POIs added in green and POIs removed in green)

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Excited to announce our January 2025 Foursquare OS Places release! This update brings significant quality improvements to our global POI dataset (including fixing POIs incorrectly placed in oceans). Checkout our release notes: docs.foursquare.com/data-product.... Notable updates in the thread

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This weekend, I hooked up FSQ Places API with @dharmesh.com's Agent.ai to build a FSQ Place Search Agent. Still need to get the latency under control and add a few more options before I publish but for now, just a demo of an important FSQ can play in the Agentic Universe.

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

In 2024, we unleashed unprecedented product velocity and innovation at Foursquare by embracing a builder-first culture through the following changes. As a result, shipped more features in the last 6 months than in the previous several years combined.

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

2024 has been a transformative year at Foursquare as we advanced our mission to making geospatial data and insights accessible to everyone. Our initiatives resonated strongly with the industry. We couldn't be more excited for what's ahead in 2025.

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Foursquare's Places API is now powering ChatGPT search with real-time location data across 100M+ points of interest globally. This partnership is our first step towards making location intelligence accessible through conversational AI. Go explore the world now! 👉 eu1.hubs.ly/H0fq7dZ0

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ChatGPT

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Today, we're taking a transformative step in our mission to build the world's most comprehensive open Places dataset. Introducing Placemaker tools in beta. These new tools give users the ability to add, edit, and validate our Places data. location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...

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Introducing Placemaker Tools : Empowering Communities to Shape the Future of Places

Stay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Introducing Placemaker Tools : Empowering Communities to Shape the Future of Places

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Our mission at Foursquare is to bridge the divide between physical and digital worlds. In my conversation with Localogy, I explore how we exemplify this vision through our Attribution solution: www.localogy.com/2024/12/loca...

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Location Intelligence: A Conversation with Foursquare

What's the latest Foursquare efforts in location intelligence? We had the chance to catch up with CTO Vikram Gundeti to find out.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 08/12/2024

Massive respect to Foursquare for releasing their defunct city guide data as a dataset. This is as big a contribution as Blender releasing their software from license commitments when they wound down. Hope it does some good. huggingface.co/datasets/fou...

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foursquare/fsq-os-places · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🗺️ Big move! Foursquare drops 105M rows of Places data into the open-source world! Free geospatial treasure trove ready to explore✨ #OpenData #GeoSpatial huggingface.co/datasets/fou...

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

There was some chatter about being able to geo-tag posts on @bsky.app. Foursquare offers APIs which are used for geo-tagging in many popular apps. If @bsky.app/ @pfrazee.com want to enable that feature, here is the link to our GeoTagging APIs: docs.foursquare.com/developer/re...

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Geotagging & Check-in

Find Nearby Places Detect where your user's device is and what is around them. Report Nearby Place Selection Report the selection of a place as the result of a Nearby Places request.

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

There are very few things I absolutely detest in life but somewhere up on that list is the AWS console.

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We have published the December release of Foursquare OS Places (in Geoparquet format). We are excited to announce that the dataset is now available on Hugging Face and Snowflake. Find out more in the release notes here: docs.foursquare.com/data-product...

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Not all data in the FSQ Places data comes from human sources, we have the perfect blend of human and digital sources. This blog talks about our journey and how we had to adapt to the changing landscape, to build a robust Places Engine: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...

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Foursquare’s New Places Engine: Crowdsourcing Redefined with Human-AI Agent Collaboration

Stay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Foursquare’s New Places Engine: Crowdsourcing Redefined with Human-AI Agent Collaboration

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Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Excited to see all the chatter about FSQ OS Places here on @bsky.app. Here is a note we sent to the Foursquare superuser community that puts some of our recent announcements in context: location.foursquare.com/placemaker-a... #Foursquare #Geospatial #Places #Opendata

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Placemaker Announcement

Discover more about Placemaker Announcement with Foursquare.

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