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Currently a big WTF because of https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/ obviously Foursquare releasing the data is a good thing, but Apache 2.0 is not a data licence and IMNALO it is totally unclear how it should be applied. Not even considering compatibility as an inbound license with other licenses that are typically used for data.
Ping @luis_in_brief in case you've not seen the announcement.
The main difference to #OpenStreetMap in the areas nearby that I've checked is that it seems to have more offices, something which has only recently has started being on the OSM radar (and of which the importance is a bit debatable).
But looks like a good (particularly compared to the LInux Foundation data) QA dataset in any case.
Note that while the Parquet files can be opened with QGis it is rather crashy.
@simon I’m not fully sure about the legalities of it, but I guess it might help to have a conflation tool that highlights which POIs are in 4SQ and not in OSM?
@seav @luis_in_brief sure, that's what I was mainly considering as most useful right now.
@seav @simon @luis_in_brief yay, a bit more, and we'll come to agree that the item on the roadmap to better POI in OSM (as I presented in Antwerp in 2023) makes sense!
