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I feel like once upon a time, "blanket the world with a mesh of pollen sensors" would absolutely have been Google's approach.
by flir 3y ago
I feel like once upon a time, "blanket the world with a mesh of pollen sensors" would absolutely have been Google's approach.
- Raed667 3y agoOr use an open-data approach from the millions of hobby/scientific weather stations. That would make it harder to sell the data though so why bother ?
- flir 3y agoI think crowdsourcing data's more of an open source thing. I don't think Google's ever been into that? Their approach is more "we're gonna scan all the books in the library/photograph every street in the world". (Interested to hear counterexamples).
- gbear605 3y agoThey’ve crowdsourced a lot of their Maps data for information on specific businesses through the Local Guides program.
- goosinmouse 3y agoAlso we local guides provide streetview maps where there previously were none.
- dylan604 3y agocrowdsourcing data is exactly what the Googs does. CAPTCHA to train it's models of data of dubious origins is the SEP (someone else's problem) nobody wants to talk about
- vineyardmike 3y agoOnce upon a time, google was obsessed with aggregating the worlds data. Today, google is all about AI generated or sourced data. And building a complex model to estimate pollen levels is definitely what they’d do. (Plus the cost of those sensors would not be justified for such a small product).