My nav system knows the road type (primary, secondary, etc.) and then has settable speeds based on the type - 65 mph primary, 50mph secondary, etc.
'Good enough' estimate, but the realtime traffic/weather seems very useful. This is doable using traffic & weather data from existing services that could be piped to the OpenMoko (or any device) say as a GeoRSS stream and then used to update predictions either on a server, or the handset. At least let you know things are "bad" ahead. On 4/10/07, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 6:12, Dean Collins wrote: > Yep, coding easy to do however issues are- > > Mapping of roads and associated speed limits, almost non existent in > the > commercial space let alone in the open source space. <snip> > Regards, > > Dean Collins > Cognation Pty Ltd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1-212-203-4357 Ph > +1-917-207-3420 Mb > +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > The last navigation system I had was able to predict how long it would take for me to get where I was going over many different roads..(highway,streets.. Etc) and then adjust it based on my actual speed and the distance remaining. I think the speed limits are in there also for that purpose. --Tim _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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