Foursquare vs MapTiler Cloud

Foursquare provides location intelligence tools for marketers, developers, analysts, and machine learning engineers. Attribution measures advertising impact across media plans and platforms. Audience builds customizable targeting groups from real-world behaviors, and Proximity supports real-time geo-contextual targeting with custom geofences. Places APIs supply real-time place data for applications and nearby venue discovery.

For spatial analysis, Spatial Workbench brings SQL workbooks, geospatial computing, dashboards, and interactive maps into a browser workspace. It uses pre-provisioned MotherDuck instances and builds maps with Kepler.gl. Foursquare Studio connects to Snowflake and BigQuery, plus QGIS, Grafana, and kepler.gl. It also offers REST API and Python library access, and supports importing and exporting CSV, GeoJSON, Shapefiles, and Vector Tiles. Places API charges by volume on a pay-as-you-go basis, with up to 10,000 free calls on Pro endpoints. Foursquare has free plans, a 30-day trial, and paid plans from $25/mo. The listed platforms are API and web; the company was founded in 2009.

MapTiler Cloud is a maps API for developers building web and mobile applications. It lets users adjust language, colors, and fonts for branded maps, upload raster or vector geodata for processing, and publish maps online. Supported file types include GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, and Shapefile. The map editor can add points, lines, polygons, and annotations for use through an API. Location services include search and geocoding between place names or addresses and coordinates. The platform offers APIs for maps, tiles, static maps, geocoding, elevation, weather, IP geolocation, coordinates, and data. It supports raster tiles with Leaflet, OpenLayers, or XYZ, vector tiles with MapTiler SDK, and WMTS for QGIS or ArcGIS. Swift and Kotlin SDKs are available for native iOS and Android apps. The Free plan is for testing, personal, or non-commercial use and includes 5 GB storage, 5k sessions per month, and 100k API requests per month. Paid plans start at $30/mo. If a Free quota is reached, service pauses until the next month unless the account is upgraded.