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In some densely populated Asian cities, 690 meters will encompass tens of thousands of people.



A circle with a 690 meters radius is about half a square mile. The top 50 most densely populated cities according to Wikipedia all have over 20,000 people per half square mile, and that includes lots of European cities and even one in the United States:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popula...


As well as hundreds of local businesses who would pay quite a bit to advertise to them directly.


Right, but my point was if you are trying to find that one person 690 meters probably won't help much.


On the other hand, it says that 690 meters is the average. I wonder if the accuracy is higher or lower in more densely populated areas. My uneducated guess is that it would be higher and that you'd actually have a more accurate location for densely populated cities.




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