Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Link to the app: apps.apple.com/us/app/swarm...apps.apple.comSwarm by FoursquareSwarm is the easiest way to keep track of the places you go: check-in to remember your favorite places, discover new spots, and stay connected with friends. Whether you're visiting a favorite coffee... 010 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Meet 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. 150 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 13/02/2025We 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/... 051 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Our 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... 073 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Excited 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...youtube.comThe Future of Place data with Foursquare CTO, Vikram GundetiYouTube video by Reprompt AI 020 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 31/01/2025We 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... 0104 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 18/01/2025It is coming through social channels like LinkedIn and X but we also have a discord channel for our Placemaker community where we engage in rigorous debates about Place quality. 010 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 18/01/2025The 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) 120 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 14/01/20253) Enriched over 1.7M places with postal code data through contextual address mapping 4) Refined US regional data accuracy for better geographic precision 5) Implemented more accurate tracking of place data freshness through the date_refreshed attribute. 100 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 14/01/20251) Added a new Placemaker URL attribute, enabling direct access to review and suggest edits for any place. 2) Enhanced data quality with improved location accuracy, including fixing POIs incorrectly placed in oceans. 110 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Excited 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 110 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 05/01/2025This 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. 000 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I meant the web app is only desktop compatible now with a mobile version coming soon. 110 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025foursquare.com/placemakers/...foursquare.comFoursquare Placemaker Tools 100 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025In 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. 010 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/20255) Foursquare Geospatial Intelligence Platform: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...location.foursquare.comIntroducing: The Foursquare Geospatial Intelligence PlatformStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Introducing: The Foursquare Geospatial Intelligence Platform 000 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/20254) Placemaker Tools: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...location.foursquare.comIntroducing Placemaker Tools : Empowering Communities to Shape the Future of PlacesStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Introducing Placemaker Tools : Empowering Communities to Shape the Future of Places 111 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025 3) FSQ OS Places Launch: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...location.foursquare.comFoursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial communityStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community 100 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/20252) Our New Places Engine: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...location.foursquare.comFoursquare’s New Places Engine: Crowdsourcing Redefined with Human-AI Agent CollaborationStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Foursquare’s New Places Engine: Crowdsourcing Redefined with Human-AI Agent Collaboration 100 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Links to all our product launches in 2024: 1) Our new Attribution pipeline & Sales Impact: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...location.foursquare.comHow Foursquare Built The Most Powerful Attribution SolutionStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about How Foursquare Built The Most Powerful Attribution Solution 100 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/01/20252024 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. 210 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Foursquare'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/H0fq7dZ0eu1.hubs.lyChatGPTA conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges 120 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Today, 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...location.foursquare.comIntroducing Placemaker Tools : Empowering Communities to Shape the Future of PlacesStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Introducing Placemaker Tools : Empowering Communities to Shape the Future of Places 010 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Our 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...localogy.comLocation Intelligence: A Conversation with FoursquareWhat's the latest Foursquare efforts in location intelligence? We had the chance to catch up with CTO Vikram Gundeti to find out. 110 0
Reposted by Vikram GundetiOmer Shapira @omershapira.com · 08/12/2024Massive 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...huggingface.cofoursquare/fsq-os-places · Datasets at Hugging FaceWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 0134 0
Reposted by Vikram GundetiFlorent 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... 031 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024There 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...docs.foursquare.comGeotagging & Check-inFind 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. 010 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024If Amazon Q can solve this problem, I will be a fan of that project. 010 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Happy to participate and help on all things ‘Places’! 110 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024There are very few things I absolutely detest in life but somewhere up on that list is the AWS console. 210 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Our learning, based on years of operating in this space, is that any system that merely conflates multiple places datasets of varying quality in the hope of producing a higher quality dataset will fail. Continuous human validation at scale is the only approach that will work. 120 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024We are experimenting with different partitioning strategies, will rollout more improvements in the January release. Might reach out to you again for guidance :) 120 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024We just published our December release with support for geoparquet, which should make these queries a lot more efficient. 000 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024We 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... 121 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Costs aside, we are looking into supporting formats that make this more efficient for the readers. 000 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Not 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...location.foursquare.comFoursquare’s New Places Engine: Crowdsourcing Redefined with Human-AI Agent CollaborationStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Foursquare’s New Places Engine: Crowdsourcing Redefined with Human-AI Agent Collaboration 120 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Excited 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 #Opendatalocation.foursquare.comPlacemaker AnnouncementDiscover more about Placemaker Announcement with Foursquare. 010 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Our commitment to the Foursquare user community outlined in the note we sent to the super users of our apps: location.foursquare.com/placemaker-a...location.foursquare.comPlacemaker AnnouncementDiscover more about Placemaker Announcement with Foursquare. 220 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Here is one of the many other things we do: location.foursquare.com/resources/bl...location.foursquare.comHow Foursquare Built The Most Powerful Attribution SolutionStay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about How Foursquare Built The Most Powerful Attribution Solution 000 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024There is already a Foursquare API for geotagging, that can be used to do this. Twitter used it in the pre-Elon era. If @bsky.app wants to do this, we would be happy to work with them. 130 0
Vikram Gundeti @vikramgundeti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Tools for this coming soon: opensource.foursquare.com/placemaker/opensource.foursquare.comPlacemakers | Foursquare Open SourceFoursquare Placemakers are builders, developers, and local experts who contribute to our POI data for open source, Swarm, and global brands. 020 0
