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Is the maps data gathered verified by you? If not, how do you stop people from gaming the system? If there’s money in it, people will hack your cams and figure it out.

If so, why does a centralized service need a blockchain/crypto at all? At this point you’re basically just paying people to walk around with your camera.

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Interesting, looks like it’s using a combination of hardware, vehicle checks, LoRa (Helium?), ML, and good old fashioned Humans for verification.

If they can scale it globally and at high frequency for imagery, that’s a very novel justification of crypto IMO. Looks like the Costco version of https://www.mapillary.com/

If there’s a central entity that verifies, why use the blockchain at all?

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