J.C. Penney’s troubles are reflected in satellite images of its parking lots
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#3I wonder what it costs to get these images, and if you could get them more cheaply by flying drones? I guess that would require a presence in a lot of places though. . . . Still, maybe you could focus on just a few cities, and get pictures more frequently than you'd get with satellites? Maybe there is an opportunity there.
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#4There is a lot of this going on in Prague. There is even an entire specialty called geoinformatics that you can study. I have an aquantance who's first comercial project was to tell the city which street lights are out.
This really goes to show, however, how the everyday man has no hope, as an investor, against the big boys.
Edit: I origionally wanted to link to this startup https://spaceknow.com/ but couldn't remember the name.
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#5I wonder what it costs to get these images, and if you could get them more cheaply by flying drones? I guess that would require a presence in a lot of places though. . . . Still, maybe you could focus on just a few cities, and get pictures more frequently than you'd get with satellites? Maybe there is an opportunity there.
I don't know the cost, but you can get the images here: https://spaceknow.com/
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#6This is a little off topic, but did anyone else see the absolutely huge ad in the middle of the article? It takes up 670px in a window that's only 960px tall. Is this a new trend in advertising?
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#7I wonder what it costs to get these images, and if you could get them more cheaply by flying drones? I guess that would require a presence in a lot of places though. . . . Still, maybe you could focus on just a few cities, and get pictures more frequently than you'd get with satellites? Maybe there is an opportunity there.
Drones could fly under cloud cover also. Satellite photos are probably less useful for Seattle than for Denver.
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#8This is a little off topic, but did anyone else see the absolutely huge ad in the middle of the article? It takes up 670px in a window that's only 960px tall. Is this a new trend in advertising?
No because we have ad blockers installed :)
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#9This is a little off topic, but did anyone else see the absolutely huge ad in the middle of the article? It takes up 670px in a window that's only 960px tall. Is this a new trend in advertising?
No because we have ad blockers installed :)
I use uBlock origin and I still saw it. I added a rule to block it but I just thought it was a little crazy that an ad was so large.
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#10I wonder what it costs to get these images, and if you could get them more cheaply by flying drones? I guess that would require a presence in a lot of places though. . . . Still, maybe you could focus on just a few cities, and get pictures more frequently than you'd get with satellites? Maybe there is an opportunity there.
I agree with you; I also think there's an opportunity here. I wonder what the biggest cost would be to such a company. Maintenance?