Current hotness is building broker companies because all anyone wants to fund is direct sale stuff. It's a tossup whether they have their own satellites or are buying data from someone else. If they're running the satellite constellation themselves then this is more speculative than reality at this moment most likely. The capabilities they seem to be claiming are, funny enough, beyond what the available downlink spectrum can support given current constraints.
Tangent: how would you incentivize people to provide this data with accruacry regarding payment. How do you prove how good the data is, compare it to others I guess or voting.
No need. Offer them a free browser + free email + free maps + free mobile OS and you have all the tracking you could wish for.
I wasn't thinking about tracking. I was thinking it would be cool if people can setup data collection sites like an anemometer in the case of weather or an SDR/something like that for RF in this case... what would incentivize them to make it good/get paid more... how do you verify it, not just made up data.