Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest
Point of Interest (POI) datasets of any strong quality have rarely been published freely. Overture and OpenStreetMap (OSM) have been making inroads but even in 2021, I could only find half of Starbucks' locations in OSM.
Companies that produce these datasets can charge yearly rental fees that run into the 6-figure territory.
I've worked with a few of these commercial feeds. On their own, they're not great for plotting POIs on maps but they're invaluable for building geocoding systems.
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