Thanks!
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > Jed - > > The simplest move is to open the data under a very permissive license > (ideally public domain, e. g. cc0) and provide it for download. This will > not guarantee any contributions but it's the first step to actually > enabling it. What about scrubbing all personal information from it and put > it up on your web site for download? > > A next step could be to render a full tile set of this data for manual > contributions and cross checking from within editors like JOSM or iD. > > From there you can make it a research project :) If you're interested in > what information you can actually programmatically deduce from your probe > data, I recommend talking to some of the guys out there who're trying to do > the same: TeleNav, Skobbler would be some. > > Alex > > > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jed Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I sent this to the imports list already and someone suggested I loop in >> dev. Any advice is welcome! >> >> -Jed >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Jed Horne <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:07 PM >> Subject: GPX imports from Uber >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Hi, >> >> my name is Jed Horne and I am a data scientist with Uber (http://uber.com). >> My company makes an iPhone app that allows users to make on-demand >> requests for taxis, luxury sedans, and other vehicles. We currently >> operate in 25+ cities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. >> >> We have GPS traces going back about three years from our drivers, and I >> am interested in contributing back to the OSM community. I was planning on >> writing a script to anonymize and clean up our traces and export as GPX >> files (per instructions here >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks). However, I am >> very new to OSM contributing and was wondering if there is a set of best >> practices (how much is too much data, how to snip trips for privacy, etc.) >> or if there is someone I could work with directly to ensure that the data I >> give you is both private (for us and our clients/drivers) and useful (to >> the community). >> >> Specifically, I'm interested in using these traces to identify where we >> might be missing small connector roads or other features that could improve >> the accuracy of routing built on OSRM. Another potential application would >> be to help identify areas of bad traffic or help improve speed profile >> information - I realize this isn't something currently supported by OSM but >> to the extent our data are useful for new or experimental features or data >> sets I'd like to know how to help out. >> >> If anyone has direct experience in this area I'm open to thoughts and >> suggestions. Also, if anyone knows people who I should contact it would be >> awesome if you could make an introduction. We have a very large volume of >> data that I hope can significantly improve the quality of OSM. >> >> Best, >> >> Jed Horne >> Uber Technologies >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> >> >
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