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Where'd The Water Go? Google Maps Water Pixel Detection With Canvas

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Re: Where'd The Water Go? Google Maps Water Pixel Detection With Canvas

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A "business ask" is like a "business need", but not clearly a need. It's a way to differentiate (and possibly dismiss) them and avoid seeming dismissive.

https://www.google.com/webhp#q=%22business+ask%22 I think you all are making stuff up. Is this some new nonsense you're trying to propagate?

Unfortunately, sit in enough meetings with them and you start to talk like them. I'm not proud.

Re: Where'd The Water Go? Google Maps Water Pixel Detection With Canvas

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The assumptions here seem a little urban-centric. Maybe in a downtown area, the only places you shouldn't show potential customers is in the middle of bodies of water; but what about a more rural or wild location - are you going to show a business that you can find them potential customers in the middle of fields? mountaintops? military testing ranges? A better approach might be to use block-level census data to give…

Water has another issue -- sometimes it's hard to cross. You can see it in the last image, sort of.

Where I live, the nearest school, store, and park are ~ 4 miles away. (I know this because of a real estate site.) The second nearest are ~ 6 miles. It takes 2.5 hours to get to the closest ones, but 15 minutes to get to the second closest ones.

The difference, one of them is across a body of water that has no ferry or bridge, and to get there you have to go the long way around. And it's a long enough trip that I've never been there in 7 years of living here, despite seeing it every non-foggy day.

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