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Hedge funds are already doing this with satellite imagery. It turns out you can get a very good idea of Home Depot's revenue for next quarter by looking at how many cars are in the parking lot.

There's a startup in NYC that does this called Placemeter. Buy a camera, point it out the window, collect data

There's a link. The article says:

> Thomas Richard and Godfrey Yeung, the former Placemeter interns who created the map

The whole thing the article is about is Placemeter as far as I can tell. Your quote made it seem like they were formerly Placemeter interns who later created the map.

Didn't click the link, eh?

That's exactly what the company here is doing.

Yeah I just noticed that in the second to last paragraph. They definitely have a clever solution for doing this.