Foursquare Open Source Places
Foursquare macht Teile seiner Datenbank frei Verfügbar. Gary Little schreibt in »Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community« für 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. ...