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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by darknoon on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:39PM (#21250773)
Future of this: computer vision detector on top of frequently-updated satellite data?
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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by davinic on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:07PM (#21251066)
There are companies[0] that provide realtime (I think) satellite imagery apis. One use case I saw was stock traders tracking parking lots of large retailers to gain early insights into sales metrics.

[0]: http://www.digitalglobe.com/products/satellite-imagery

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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by GhettoMaestro on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:06PM (#21251052)
Retail was doing this back in the 1990s. "Parking lot counting"
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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by dewey on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:43PM (#21250824)
Bonus points if you implement it with your own remote controlled drone.
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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by bduerst on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:52PM (#21250916)
I was going to say just mechanical turk parking lot pictures.
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