“Visual positioning is not a very new technology,” says Konrad Wenzel at ESRI, a company that develops digital mapping and geospatial analysis software. “But it’s obvious that the more cameras we have out there, the better it becomes.”
Niantic Spatial has trained its model on 30 billion images captured in urban environments. In particular, the images are clustered around hot spots—places that served as important locations in Niantic’s games that players were encouraged to visit, such…

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