How does Foursquare return venues during search?

We're building an iPhone app  and want to allow the user to search for venues by location and name  (i.e., find "Joe's Pizza" in "New York City"). Our preference is to use the Foursquare API, but it seems to require latitude and longitude...

In other words, how far can a venue be from the coordinates, and still be returned in the search results?

I live in Mississippi and would like to head somewhere 2-5 hours away for a good show. As you know, it's difficult to find good well known bands in the south, as well as it's hard to search online for good local bands. A few examples of the sort of music...

I saw that many users add their home address. What does foursquare think about it? I think it's allowed because there's the "Home" category  but wouldn't it be a mess if everybody add their own addresses? Attention: question is not about check...

Searching for a local place, you won't usually see Foursquare's result before the second page but you will find local blogs with a small audience ranking higher than Foursquare. So obviously audience of a website doesn't really matter ? What are the...

I'm from Costa Rica and I'm amazed on how much venues are on foursquare and i'm wondering how did they map the initial venues for a new country/city/etc? I know users can add venues but i'm guessing (could be wrong) that they have a source/way to add...

Foursquare currently offers a (a) check-in service with a fairly simple gamified overlay offering status rewards (leaderboard, badges, mayorships) to users, (b) a newsfeed with updates on your friends' check-ins, and (c) an "explore" service...

These results seem to be typical of any word. "Running" returns 1,530,000,000 results when using search tools for anything indexed up to and including today, yet if you search for things indexed "any time" then you end up with 46...

There are certain messages in the inbox but search for them using any keyword does not return any. I refine, try other keywords in the message just to try if yahoo mail search will find it, but no results. I try to search the sender's emails entering...