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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by jameslk on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:41PM (#11112089)
I've been wanting to build a service like this to watch foot traffic around retail businesses and restaurants. Then provide the data for investors. Kind of like that company that uses satellite imagery to watch parking lots to measure patronage.
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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by hendzen on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:44PM (#11112120)
Hedge funds are already doing this with satellite imagery. It turns out you can get a very good idea of Home Depot's revenue for next quarter by looking at how many cars are in the parking lot.
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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by vdnkh on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:17PM (#11112375)
There's a startup in NYC that does this called Placemeter. Buy a camera, point it out the window, collect data
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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by Symbiote on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:30PM (#11112475)
There's a link. The article says:

> Thomas Richard and Godfrey Yeung, the former Placemeter interns who created the map

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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by obelisk_ on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:49PM (#11112633)
The whole thing the article is about is Placemeter as far as I can tell. Your quote made it seem like they were formerly Placemeter interns who later created the map.
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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by rco8786 on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:04PM (#11113830)
Didn't click the link, eh?
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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by jonknee on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:03PM (#11112728)
That's exactly what the company here is doing.
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Re:Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time by jameslk on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:10PM (#11113864)
Yeah I just noticed that in the second to last paragraph. They definitely have a clever solution for doing this.
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