All Of The Places In The World (opens in new tab)

This week we are going to learn how Foursquare is trying to identify and map all of the places in the world! Foursquare uses a mixture of crowd source and data conflation to maintain a database of 205 million places ... and it's not easy! Each phone might see the world slightly differently in terms of location accuracies and crowdsourcing data means that people "check-in" at different locations. Kyle Fowler - Senior Director, Engineering at Foursquare Is going to give a behind-the-scenes look...