Release Notes - FSQ OS Places

January 2025

Since previous release on 12/04

A new column placemaker_url has been added.
- This attribute contains a link to the POI’s review page in the PlaceMaker Tools application.
- Users can suggest edits to correct data quality issues or review pending edits.
- Example: https://foursquare.com/placemakers/review-place/5a187743ccad6b307315e6fe
- See documentation for more information.
We filled 1,768,290 POI postcode values using contextual address mapping.
We removed 27,584 POI that were located in oceans by isolating POI with missing address and a lack of first party data signals.
We corrected 238 POI that were located in oceans with inverted latitude and longitude values.
We corrected 33,321 POI in the US where region values did not match their latitude and longitude placement.
The date_refreshed attribute indicates when we last received trustworthy confirmation about a place's details, either through trusted data sources or human interaction such as user edits and rich content submissions.
- We've improved how we track this timestamp by updating it only when we receive external validation - whether from trusted sources, Swarm users contributing content, or Placemaker edits.
- We no longer update this timestamp for automated system changes, such as standardization updates or internal algorithm adjustments. As a result of this one-time adjustment, many places show older date_refreshed values compared to the previous release.

Since previous release on 11/19

New file formats available in the public S3 bucket
- Geoparquet format with Zstandard compression is now available with supported geometry columns
  s3://fsq-os-places-us-east-1/release/dt=2024-12-03/places/parquet
An offering is now available on HuggingFace
An offering is now available on Snowflake