What's the licensing of this? I wonder if it could be used to improve OSM.
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To answer my own question
> 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.
Found on Simon Willison’s Weblog [0], quoting the official announcement [1]. His page also shows how to use it with Datasette.
That's really convenient - I zoomed the map to an area in my town, clicked on a place, and even though popup is just raw data, it let me see which fields hold which values (which I could then feed back into pandas search expressions on the parquet files.) Just little things like "locality" is city/town in the US, and "fsq_category_labels is where I'll find Ice Cream Parlor".
> Foursquare and Overture places are like many geolocation-centric datasets: users aren’t supposed to ever see the raw data, either in a list or on the map. You have to filter by a confidence score. Otherwise, you’ll get tons of user-generated junk – pranks, mistakes, etc.. In the past, Foursquare would charge big bucks for the confidence scores as an upsell. If these scores aren’t part of the dataset, then no wonder the company feels comfortable releasing the data.
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To answer my own question
> 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.
Found on Simon Willison’s Weblog [0], quoting the official announcement [1]. His page also shows how to use it with Datasette.
[0] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source...
[1] https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/four...