Factual API: 55m POIs in 47 Countries

Los Angeles-based start-up Factual has reached 55 million places in its database that now covers 47 countries said the company in a blog post today. Interestingly these 55 million Points of Interest can be queried via a single API to make developers’ life more simple.

Tyler Bell, Director of product at Factual explained this move: “Previously at Factual, we divided our place data by country: while easy to manage, developers needed to know in advance what table to query. Now, all countries are centrally located and can be queried simultaneously.“

The two most recent countries added to the list are Canada (1.8 million entities) and China ( still in beta) with 9.8 million entities.