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    Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 28 Jul 2016
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    Google Maps now highlights interesting areas of cities in light orange. Such a great feature—and incentive!pic.twitter.com/6oGjbTptPg

    8:40 AM - 28 Jul 2016
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      2. Stanislas Marion‏ @stanmarion 28 Jul 2016
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        except it’s useless in Paris as all zones are coloured as interesting:pic.twitter.com/CT8vwzUskP

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      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 28 Jul 2016
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        downside of good urban planning!

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      2. Joshua Schoenaker‏ @JoshSchoen 28 Jul 2016
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        'interesting' meaning what? lively?

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      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 28 Jul 2016
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        Not sure. Obvious algorithm, I guess, is density of destinations of trips that Maps is used for.

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      1. grork‏ @grork 28 Jul 2016
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        terrible for colour blind people. I genuinely can’t see any orange on there. :(

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      2. finitor‏ @finitor 28 Jul 2016
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        Not much love for the Bronx, so I think I want my own, less bourgeois, "interestingness" tuning parameterspic.twitter.com/WqVMI4bfaE

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      3. John Collison‏ @collision 28 Jul 2016
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        you need to enable kayak directions

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      1. Nicolas Spehler‏ @NSpehler 28 Jul 2016
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        Next step: Enabling local businesses to pay for their area to be featured.

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      1. Lavanya  🦋‏ @lavanyaai 28 Jul 2016
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        thought that was a traffic heat map! Probably strongly correlated.

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        When the physical world is a set of digital data points, how you slice & dice it is, but, a function of creativity 😃

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