Foursquare’s Official Style Guide
This is the official style guide that appears on the add/edit venue pages of Foursquare’s site. Unfortunately it’s not possible to link directly to it, so we’ve added it here for reference.
- For chains or venues with multiple locations, you no longer need to add a location suffix. So “Starbucks”
or “Apple Store” is fine (instead of “Starbucks – Queen Anne” or “Apple Store – Uptown”). - When possible stick with abbreviations: “Ave” instead of “Avenue”, “St” instead “Street”, etc
- Cross Street should be like one of the following:
- at Main St (for venues on a corner)
- btw 2nd & 3rd Ave (for venues in the middle of a block)
- Cross Street should not repeat the name of the street in the address.

#1 by Ilyichevsk on August 11, 2011 - 6:57 am
I’m using two languages for new venues because of local needs and names are very long. Would like to see Foursquare with multi language interface.
#2 by sabre23t on August 20, 2011 - 8:38 pm
https://foursquare.com/admin/ links to this style guide
http://foursquare.zendesk.com/entries/214565-is-there-a-style-guide-for-adding-venues.
It elaborates a bit more and have “Ave.” instead of “Ave” above.