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My guess would have been AR being the biggest driving force. Oh, and every outdoor photo on Facebook can now more easily be “placed in context” on the map. Espe

My guess would have been AR being the biggest driving force. Oh, and every outdoor photo on Facebook can now more easily be “placed in context” on the map. Especially given Facebook’s “sell the users” business model, an accurate map of where the users are with respect to where the advertisers are would be quite useful to them (and it wouldn’t do to depend on Google, since they’ll butt heads as advertising platforms). Making the platform free to commercial users as well might be more in line with Facebook’s business models — I’m guessing they’d rather create an API which allows them to exfiltrate end-user data, than charge companies for using their API.

pdkl95 6y ago
> an accurate map of where the users are with respect to where the advertisers are Not just advertisers - accurate location context information can (on it's own or in combination with other data) de-"anonymise" location data[1]. Any new sources of data that Facebook can correlate with their existing hoard of data increases the precision of their model of everyone's pattern-of-life. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...
canada_dry 6y ago
> and every outdoor photo on Facebook can now more easily be “placed in context” When you factor in their ML prowess [i] it's not hard to imagine that every photo you submit w̶i̶l̶l̶ is getting automagically tagged with an astonishing amount of context: who, what, when, and where (why too since they have all of your chats/messages too). [i] https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2 https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2
- KaiserPro 6y ago
  Google are more likley to do this first. They already have a global scale visual positioning service.

pdkl95 6y ago

> an accurate map of where the users are with respect to where the advertisers are Not just advertisers - accurate location context information can (on it's own or in combination with other data) de-"anonymise" location data[1]. Any new sources of data that Facebook can correlate with their existing hoard of data increases the precision of their model of everyone's pattern-of-life. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...

canada_dry 6y ago

> and every outdoor photo on Facebook can now more easily be “placed in context” When you factor in their ML prowess [i] it's not hard to imagine that every photo you submit w̶i̶l̶l̶ is getting automagically tagged with an astonishing amount of context: who, what, when, and where (why too since they have all of your chats/messages too). [i] https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2 https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2

KaiserPro 6y ago
Google are more likley to do this first. They already have a global scale visual positioning service.