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Thyseus

Notes from building Thyseus — a live map stitched from public cameras and the idle compute in volunteers’ browser tabs.

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    The map is made of open tabs

    The usual way to build a live map of the physical world is to buy sensors and rent servers to watch them. Thyseus does neither. It turns cameras that already exist and browser tabs that are already open into a sensor network nobody had to install — and that inversion is the whole product.

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