POIs and POI categories

Like so many other people (for example Thomas here, but I vaguely remember a whole bunch of blog posts in the last few weeks) I am currently in the midst of trying to write my own FourSquare/Swarm replacement. I still use it a lot – mostly for my own amusement and record keeping. And while the “social” bits were a bit fun in the early days when it was still FourSquare I didn’t really use it like that any more in the last couple of years. And yet, every time I get going, I get stuck on the POIs/venues. I tried using Overpass/OSM but somehow I’m not really warming up to the tag-based classification system. I started to use the iD Tagging Schema to try to at least get some kind of category based on the tags. And then I started to think about FourSquare’s categories. Their category tree has been under a rather permissive license ever since they open sources a lot of their places data so I figured I would want to use that, especially since I a) quite like it and b) have a huge archive of…

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