Facebook testing alternative sources of location data for Instagram

Facebook has started testing location information embedding, looking at integrating Facebook Places data into Instagram. Instagram currently uses Foursquare data for geotagging and attaching photo data to a location. Neither Facebook nor Foursquare have any comment on the matter, and a wholesale replacement of the photo tag data source doesn’t appear to be underway in any more than a small scale test to a limited subset of users…..