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Adrien Rahier<p>I was curious to see an update to Swarm - the Mobile app of Foursquare - so I gave it a try after many years of inactivity. <br>Brings a lot of good memories 🥲 <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/swarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swarm</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a> <br>Anyone in my timeline still using it? <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foursquare</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/swarmapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swarmapp</span></a></p>
Spatialists<p>The end of the spatial join? Vikram Gundeti, CTO of <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a>, is reimagining <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geospatial</span></a> for <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datascience</span></a> by eliminating traditional GIS hurdles and embracing <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ML</span></a>-friendly, agent-ready solutions. Will geodata be "mapless" by default?<br><a href="https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/08/06-the-spatial-join/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spatialists.ch/posts/2025/08/0</span><span class="invisible">6-the-spatial-join/</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geospatial</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/SwissGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwissGIS</span></a></p>
mbajur<p>Is there anything like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foursquare</span></a> or, let's call it, micro place reviews app based on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> ?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fedidev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedidev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/needhelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>needhelp</span></a></p>
Abel V.M.<p>Isn't <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> a bit late to invent <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/CARTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CARTO</span></a>? <a href="https://medium.com/@foursquare/introducing-the-fsq-spatial-product-family-621d5b9d59a2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@foursquare/introdu</span><span class="invisible">cing-the-fsq-spatial-product-family-621d5b9d59a2</span></a></p>
devolute<p>&gt; "A few months ago, Foursquare teamed up directly with ChatGPT, meaning Foursquare’s location data is now powering many of the AI’s responses.<br>&gt; What’s really wild about this is that Foursquare has pretty much retired its consumer-facing apps and websites. Yet, it’s now a key aggregator for AI search."</p><p>No shade to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a>, but this is damning: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> 'insight' is based on what was succeeding years ago, rather than what's relevant now. It's like bizarro-world <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a><br>/via <a href="https://www.brightlocal.com/blog/ai-search-using-listings-sources/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">brightlocal.com/blog/ai-search</span><span class="invisible">-using-listings-sources/</span></a></p>
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK<p>It seems <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/MagicEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagicEarth</span></a> are at least listening to the user community and holding off on the switch to a paid app for <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> until they can find some payment method that doesn't require Google service (I hope this doesn't mean that development stalls until they can get their revenue stream)</p><p>IMO if fhey are charging for it the app they should have a full website portal with payment facility *and* access to support with a ticketing system and facility to add crowdsourced map updates (rather than expecting endusers to work out which is <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> and which is <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> or other third parties), and not relying just on email or worse, Reddit) - basically all that <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/TomTom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TomTom</span></a> *used* to have not that long ago but abandoned...</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/navi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>navi</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/GNSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNSS</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a></p>
Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:<p>Meh. Since the last <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Swarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swarm</span></a> update, seems I don't seem to getting my <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/JetLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JetLovers</span></a> flights pics into my check-ins anymore 😭 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@mneylon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mneylon</span></a></span> Seeing that too, mate?</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foursquare</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/geek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geek</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ocd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocd</span></a></p>
Zacky Ma<p>Didn’t think I’d live to see the day that <a href="https://m.marchbox.com/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> / <a href="https://m.marchbox.com/tags/Swarmp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swarmp</span></a> gets a redesign.</p>
Vladimir Campos<p>Just got an email from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> promoting the "new Swarm".🤔 Didn't know people were still using Foursquare.</p>
Phil Gyford<p>I was wondering why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swarm</span></a> now always opens with a map - I know where I am, I’m about to check in!</p><p>Then I noticed the search and buttons (“Restaurants”, “Coffee”, etc) at the top and realised they’ve done as promised and folded the old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> guide stuff back into the app.</p>
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@evan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evan</span></a></span> This is cool. A <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> / <a href="https://c.im/tags/Swarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swarm</span></a> for the <a href="https://c.im/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> network!</p>
Bastianoso<p>Ich dachte, dass <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourSquare</span></a> die <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swarm</span></a>-App bald abschaltet und habe mich schon nach Alternativen umgesehen, aber jetzt gab’s da ein Update und alles sieht frisch und neu aus. Scheinbar wollen sie das noch weiterbetreiben.</p>
Thomas<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/users/sebsauvage" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sebsauvage</span></a></span><br>The data most likely comes from <a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=MagicEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagicEarth</span></a></p>
Radgryd<p>Wish this feature was added. But alas, the issue is almost 9 years old. 🫩</p><p>It would also be a really cool step into the direction of a Swarm/Foursquare-like check-in app for the Fediverse. </p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/281" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i</span><span class="invisible">ssues/281</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/Geolocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geolocation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/Swarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swarm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/FediFeature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediFeature</span></a></p>
ttk✔️ (DO1TTK)<p>Wenn man eine Mail von einem Dienst bekommt, dass da "Exciting new API and price changes" vor der tür stehen heißt das im Klartext doch nur, dass die API jetzt enshittified wird, und man sich was neues suchen muss, oder? <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foursquare</span></a></p>
Alexander Brăteanu 🇪🇺<p>Ciao <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rp25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rp25</span></a> –habt morgen noch viel Spaß! <a href="https://swarmapp.com/user/17109433/checkin/683614a7a1b20b653a91a29e?s=aAlZUWWB5piEk3rbWiuVT7tBXuw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">swarmapp.com/user/17109433/che</span><span class="invisible">ckin/683614a7a1b20b653a91a29e?s=aAlZUWWB5piEk3rbWiuVT7tBXuw</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postlikeitis2013" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postlikeitis2013</span></a></p>
Thomas<p><strong>Fehlerhafte Foursquare-Daten in Magic Earth – Was tun?</strong></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MagicEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagicEarth</span></a> nutzt für viele POIs Daten von <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foursquare</span></a>. Leider sind diese Einträge oft veraltet oder fehlerhaft – und es gibt keine Möglichkeit, sie direkt in Foursquare zu korrigieren. Das sorgt regelmäßig für Frust bei der Navigation.</p><p><strong>Probleme:</strong></p><ul><li>Falsche oder veraltete POI-Daten in Magic Earth</li><li>Keine direkte Korrekturmöglichkeit für Nutzer</li><li>Foursquare-Community liefert oft unzuverlässige Infos</li></ul><p><strong>Mein Appell:</strong><br>Ich wünsche mir, dass Magic Earth eine Funktion einführt, mit der man fehlerhafte POI-Einträge direkt in der App melden oder korrigieren kann. So könnten Nutzer aktiv zur Datenqualität beitragen – ähnlich wie es bei <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> möglich ist.</p><p><strong>Fazit:</strong><br><br>Bessere Korrekturmöglichkeiten würden Magic Earth deutlich aufwerten und die Navigation für alle Nutzer zuverlässiger machen. Bis dahin bleibt nur, Fehler zu melden und auf Verbesserungen zu hoffen.</p>
narrowbotr<p>📍: Bridge 109 - Upperton Road Bridge<br>ℹ️: road bridge<br>🗺: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.6256203422884&amp;mlon=-1.14306733266556#map=17/52.6256203422884/-1.14306733266556" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.625</span><span class="invisible">6203422884&amp;mlon=-1.14306733266556#map=17/52.6256203422884/-1.14306733266556</span></a><br>📸: Photo by Paul Conneally on Flickr <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98509073@N00/11157848253" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/98509073@N00</span><span class="invisible">/11157848253</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/narrowboat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrowboat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/england" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>england</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flickr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flickr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/square" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>square</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/squareformat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>squareformat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amaro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amaro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iphoneography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iphoneography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/instagramapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>instagramapp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uploaded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uploaded</span></a>:by=instagram <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foursquare</span></a>:venue=4e69ebf5b0fb8b8a83f4731e</p>
Fabio Manganiello<p>I’ve recently taken a closer look at the <a class="hashtag" href="https://manganiello.social/tag/foursquare" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foursquare</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://manganiello.social/tag/api" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#API</a> (updating the long unmaintained Platypush plugin, details on why coming soon).</p><p>At first their new API versioning schema seemed a bit confusing (why would anyone use arbitrary <code>YYYYMMDD</code> strings as versions?), but a closer look at how they implemented it revealed a quite clever design decision:</p><blockquote><p>Versioning is controlled by the <code>v</code> parameter, which is a date that represents the “version” of the API for which you expect from Foursquare. It is designed to give developers the freedom to adapt to Foursquare API changes on their own schedule. The value of the v parameter is a date in YYYYMMDD format that lets you tell us “I’m prepared for API changes up to this date.”</p></blockquote><p>You know when you look at an engineering decision that is so elegant and obvious that you think “damn, how could nobody think of this before?”</p><p>Nearly two decades spent managing <code>/v1</code>, <code>/v2</code>, <code>/v2.5</code>, <code>/v2.almost3</code>, <code>/v3</code>, managing migrations and deprecations, documenting breaking changes, introducing exponentially thicker layers of schemas and converters, and the obvious solution was just there under our nose.</p><p>Why don’t you just start with defining the base schemas of your API objects at the time of their first release, and then every time you add, modify or delete a field, or change some return type, or add a value to an enum, you just version the change with a timestamp?</p><p>Let the developer say “I understand the language that your API spoke 3 months ago”, and you just dynamically create the schemas, GraphQL or ORM snippets to parse requests and responses as of that date.</p><p>No more breaking changes. No more forced migrations. No more boilerplate to explicitly convert payloads across different API versions.</p><p>You construct the response by first applying the base schema, and then gradually patching it - just like you would do with a git rebase, or an ORM migration tool.</p><p>A downside may probably be that you can never really delete a column from the db if it was ever used by any version of your API.</p><p>And a challenge may also be to adapt tools like <a class="hashtag" href="https://manganiello.social/tag/openapi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAPI</a> / <a class="hashtag" href="https://manganiello.social/tag/swagger" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Swagger</a> that were designed around static schemas to also work with “dynamically versioned” selections.</p><p>But to me the problems it solves far outweight the downsides.</p><p><a href="https://docs.foursquare.com/developer/reference/versioning" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://docs.foursquare.com/developer/reference/versioning</a></p>
Sara<p>Does anyone have any suggestions of what to replace Foursquare with for discovering/rediscovering good restaurants/bars/stuff when travelling?</p><p>I either want something that can make suggestions, or something I can record/review my own stuff and used to remind myself later. </p><p>It sort of feels like there should be a fediverse alternative. And don’t say Tripadvisor it’s a pile of tosh.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/appsuggestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>appsuggestions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/foursquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foursquare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>help</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a></p>