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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11.08.2016 20:37, Michał Brzozowski
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<pre wrap="">The activity areas aren't merely about the usage itself, but, well,
the activity - i.e. concentration of interesting places and number of
people visiting them (or other similar popularity metric).
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I saw recently a documentary about the phenomenon of a Pokemon game.
A retail shop owner said in this film that he pays money so that
digital creatures appear more often at the entrance of his shop. And
people (potential clients) are hanging around his shop because of
it. <br>
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In principle the activity areas could be monetized in similar way by
the commercial maps. For example, a new shopping center wants to be
shown on the map as a high activity area, and it is ready to pay for
it. Finally, it may end up as a sort of an additional tax for
retailers. If one does not pay, the area will be shown on the map as
abandoned, with no activity whatsoever.<br>
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Another thought, - for some people an activity could be dancing, for
other shopping, or cycling, running, paragliding, diving, reading,
etc. It is hard to define what is interesting to people. For some it
could be a discotheque, or clothing & fashion shop, or a bar,
for others a stadium, a beach, a library, a cycling path, etc. <i>De
gustibus non est disputandum.</i><br>
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brgds<br>
O.M.<b><br>
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