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by jampa 663 days ago
I wanted to draw an analogy to wardriving: instead of collecting my neighbors' Wi-Fi SSIDs, I collected information about their houses' characteristics and quality. Pehaps it is a stretch, but the original idea was actually to drive with a camera on the roof of the car, but it proved to be a costly setup, and Street View was more "scalable."

For the next part, I will actually need to do it: Drive around, perhaps recording, and then extracting "for sale" signs. I have no idea how I am going to make it cheaper, maybe using simple text detection instead of an AI will suffice.