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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

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152 points po | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 08:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TekMol ◴[20 Nov 24 10:19 UTC] No.42192475[source]▶
What is the motivation of Foursquare to open source their places data?
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1. nness ◴[20 Nov 24 10:22 UTC] No.42192489[source]▶
Largely, improve the data quality from contributions.
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2. hk__2 ◴[20 Nov 24 11:37 UTC] No.42192919[source]▶
Why should one contribute to this dataset instead of OpenStreetMap?