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Now aggressively poll the new images with GPS location from Instagram/Twitter/Facebook, identify every face in sight, and build a realtime map of everyone everywhere!

(Actually for a lot of shots you could probably get by without the GPS location by recognizing some landmarks in the background)

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>> "Actually for a lot of shots you could probably get by without the GPS location by recognizing some landmarks in the background"

Yes, this is already being done.

EDIT: Curious, why this is getting downvotes, any thought on why?

EDIT-2: Here's an example, though the general gist is you grab millions of photos with geo-location meta data, then train against this to ID the location of photos without the location meta-data:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/25/11112594/google-new-deep-l...

Because the comment suggests, without offering any evidence, that there is a coordinated or automated large-scale effort underway to carry out the previous comment's plan.

It may be because you are simply stating that it is being done without any references to actual projects which might back up and add some value to your statement.

So, Marauder's Map for the whole world?

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