• 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Not by a long shot even at Ingress’ peak.

    Still, I think the location scanning isn’t as valuable as the pathing data they’ve been collecting. Besides, Google Maps has images of the majority of these scans anyway. But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths.

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      20 days ago

      But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths corralling civil unrest.

      FTFY. Crowd control.

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      20 days ago

      Google maps has images of streets, they don’t have images of the middle of a park or the middle of a Hospital lobby.