Airports are made up of a hodgepodge of venues and subvenues. There is a lot of information to define the location of each subvenue that needs to be broken down into the three fields Foursquare gives us to work with. These are currently considered the best practices; please contribute to our discussion if you have any further ideas.

The primary goal is to keep the main airport venue “findable,” so that if a user searches for it by name or by airport code if will appear without getting shuffled out of the results by other venues. Therefore the airport code and name only appear on the main venue; they are relegated to the cross street field for the subvenues.

Use these examples as a guide:

Main Venue

• Name: Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)
• Address: 8000 Essington Ave.
• Cross Street: (blank)

Terminal

• Name: Terminal A West
• Address: PHL Airport
• Cross Street: (blank)

Concourse

• Name: Concourse B
• Address: at Terminal 3
• Cross Street: CVG Airport

Gate

• Name: Gate F28
• Address: at Terminal F
• Cross Street: PHL Airport

Food

• Name: Sbarro Italian Eatery
• Address: at Gate 18, Terminal F (or “at Terminal F” if not near a gate)
• Cross Street: PHL Airport

Other

• Name: Food Court Bathrooms
• Address: at Food Court
• Cross Street: PHL Airport

Flight

• Name: US Airways Flight 666
• Address: PHL Airport
• Add the airline’s IATA code and the flight number as an alias (e.g., “UA666″) to make the flight easy to find no matter how users search for it