That’s valuable data for sale by other vendors.
Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
by faitswulff on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @12:28PM
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What vendors are in this business?
Foursquare, but not with parking lot data, to my knowledge:
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/alternative-data-future-...
Satellite image companies sell this type of alternative data to buyers:
https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/how-hedge-funds-use-satel...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...
Some of the vendors are RS Metrics, Descartes Labs and Orbital Insight.
Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
by faitswulff on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:18PM
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Unfortunate that none of these, even when purchased, would be a substitute for actually looking at the parking lot in real time.
Unfortunately it's been completely useless in my area. I wish stores just allowed access to the cctv cameras on their parking lots so I could estimate for myself.