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Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

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387 points bookstore-romeo | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.308s | source
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ggm ◴[20 Nov 24 23:40 UTC] No.42199341[source]▶
Not wanting to over-do it, but is there possibly an argument the data about geospatial should be in the commons and google have some obligation to put the data back into the commons?

I'm not arguing to a legal basis but if it's crowdsourced, then the inputs came from ordinary people. Sure, they signed to T&Cs.

Philosophically, I think knowledge, facts of the world as it is, even the constructed world, should be public knowledge not an asset class in itself.

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1. john_minsk ◴[21 Nov 24 04:33 UTC] No.42201153[source]▶
No. it should be owned by the owners of the land on which these objects are located. You should be able to provide access at different levels of detail to public or private entities that need said access and revoke it at your own will. May be make some money out of it.

3D artist can create a model of a space and offer rights to the owner of the land, who in turn can choose to create his own model or use the one provided by an artist.