What would you do with OpenStreetMap + Mechnical Turk?
I've thought about things like:
- Real estate agencies pay a small amount to have their latest sales mapped - and every property on the street. This lets them advertise to the neighbours with an example listing
- "I just sold property A. Here's what your house, a 504sqm property with swimming pool and located 200 from nearby schools, might be advertised as"
- Personalised, generated tours of significant vineyards/scenic drives - $20-30 gets you a route planned and a custom map print out, plus all of the highlights mapped a day or two before you leave.
- Advertising for farmers markets. The vendors pay to have their area mapped. The benefits for them - they show you the exact location/distance their produce came from, letting you get to know the carbon cost or history of the produce - possibly rendered with QR codes so you can browse straight to the map/their website.
What else would you do, if you could ask for information on any area and know it would be mapped within 24 hours for a reasonable cost?
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