How does Foursquare return venues during search?

How big is the search radius around the latitude/longitude supplied in the venues/search call of the Foursquare API?

  • In other words, how far can a venue be from the coordinates, and still be returned in the search results?

  • Answer:

    Depends on whether you specify a query term.  If you are searching by query, we are assuming that you have a specific motive in mind and that your location is a bit fuzzy, so we search uniformly for matches within a 10km radius.  If you don't specify a query, we assume you are looking for a place nearby and thus we look for the closest n venues within a large (40km) max radius, whichever comes first (usually the first).

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