Open geospatial data can be hard to access for users without the technical knowledge of geoparquet, S3 and REST APIs. However, using QGIS plugins and Python or R packages can make the process simpler.

pyplaces is a Python package that integrates often hard to access places data into a GeoPandas analysis workflow. pyplaces is built to access and navigate places data from Overture, Foursquare, and others from a bounding box or place of interest.