Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursuing?

Re:Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursu... by RantyDave on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:10PM (#12309974)

It turns out that councils (i.e. a city council) don't actually know where their pipes run and in particular don't know where their storm water drains are. This makes flood planning very difficult. So there's money in driving around a la streetview and finding where the drains are. One could possibly license the actual streetview images and mine them, too.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursu... by pajop on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:33AM (#12310440)

I was just reading this http://qz.com/759177/major-chinese-cities-cant-seem-to-figur... and then I saw your post. Looks like Chinese cities would have very good use of what your startup has to offer!

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Re:Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursu... by jeffmould on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:50PM (#12310113)

http://cityscan.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursu... by randomnumber314 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:17AM (#12312627)

FYI - most links the menus lead to 404

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Re:Ask HN: What are your startup ideas that you aren't pursu... by jeffmould on Sunday August 21, 2016 @05:18PM (#12332783)

Oops, looks like they went out of business. They had some pretty interesting LIDAR technology for mapping cities. Not sure what happened.

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