What's the best way to tune my Foursquare API search queries?

Question

I\'m getting some erratic results from Foursquare\'s venue search API and I\'m wondering if anyone has any tips on how to process my input parameters for the most \"intuitive\"

Answer 1

Although there are ranking improvements we can make on our end to find this distant exact match, it generally also helps to specify intent=browse (although it looks like in this case, for now, it may give you worse results). By default, /venues/search uses intent=checkin, which tries really hard to find close-by matches for checking in to, at the expense of other ways a venue might match your search. Learn more at https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/search