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Activity curator Sosh hits iPhone – new cities are next. Google Maps indoor navigation: yeah, it works at CES. Foursquare to relaunch Instapaper for places feature. Foursquare a little over a year ago tried launching an “Add to Foursquare” embeddable button for web publishers, which allowed users to save venues to their to-do list in Foursquare.

Foursquare to relaunch Instapaper for places feature

The service died out after a few months after publishers gave up on the feature. But now Foursquare is poised to relaunch Add to Foursquare under the new name Save to Foursquare in the next month. New Factual Resolve API Will Help Clean Up, Complete Location Databases. Open data platform Factual.com is launching a new API for developers of location-based services called Resolve.

New Factual Resolve API Will Help Clean Up, Complete Location Databases

The API is an entity resolution API that makes partial records complete, matches entities against one other and assists in the process of de-duping and normalizing datasets. What this means is that developers can simply tell Factual what they know about an entity (i.e., a venue in a place database) and it will fill in the missing pieces (e.g., the category, the latitude/longitude info and venue’s address).