[OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

Joseph Reeves iknowjoseph at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 13:42:35 GMT 2012


An interesting article on the value (or issues) of FourSquare
generated spatial data:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/06/spatial_junk/

Joseph




On 5 March 2012 11:22, Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com> wrote:
> In their blog they made some cryptic comments about helping OSM with data...
> No idea what they actually meant though, could just be helping direct users
> to OSM, could be employing people to map stuff... who knows.
>
> Bob
>
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> On 5 Mar 2012, at 11:17, Joseph Reeves wrote:
>
> I think they're just using tiles for mapping background on their
> (not-mobile) website. No api, no POIs, no data sharing, just raster
> images. Having said that, I can't remember reading anything proper
> about this and appear to have learnt it all through osmosis.
>
> Cheers, Joseph
>
>
>
> On 5 March 2012 10:59, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:
>
> mmm i want to know deeply about POI inside 4SQ and OSM, will 4SQ share with
>
> OSM database for POI?
>
>
> F
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> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Would it be possible for Foursquare to let us use the information users
>
> type in (restaurant names, addresses)? There is a lot of good information
>
> there.
>
>
> Janko
>
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