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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

(simonwillison.net)
152 points po | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 08:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
1. jarpineh ◴[20 Nov 24 10:48 UTC] No.42192657[source]▶
There’s also Overture Maps with its 3.7B features:

https://overturemaps.org/

Foursquare could conceivably become a member and donate their data.

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2. twelvechairs ◴[20 Nov 24 11:23 UTC] No.42192844[source]▶
Both are open source. However, Foursquare open source places seems to be Apache 2 licensed where overture is CDLA Permissive 2.0. So not sure if you can port from one to another. It does my head in trying to work out the kind of licensing issues.

I'd imagine foursquare is much better on 'places' like this - overture has other things like building footprints etc.