Foursquare makes parts of its database publicly available.

Gary Little writes in “Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community” for foursquare.com

In an effort to change that dynamic, we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places (“FSQ OS Places”). 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.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.