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Re:Confessions of a location data exec by NipunSingh on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:24PM (#19260855)
Not an exec but work in the geospatial data space. Our company did an analysis of bid-stream data and came to the same conclusion that less than 10% of bid stream data is high quality.

https://blog.safegraph.com/less-than-10-of-bid-stream-locati...

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Re:Confessions of a location data exec by voycey on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:53PM (#19267970)
Yep we know your company very well - we came to the same conclusions, even despite the heavy cleansing methods people purport to undertake it is still garbage!
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