Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones
Most of the data collected by urban planners are messy, complex, and difficult to represent. It looks nothing like the…theintercept.com • The program, known as Replica, offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city’s patterns of movement. Like “SimCity,” Replica’s “user-friendly” tool deploys statistical simulations to give a comprehensive view of how, when, and where people travel in urban areas.
• Typical urban planners rely on processes like surveys…