I'm awaiting a properly Open SatNav system. Not only will this improve the opportunities for crowdsourcing, but it would also give me an opportunity to fix some of the most annoying things about current systems (e.g. configurable advance warning times for turn-by-turn directions; journey times that are adjusted to your average driving speed).
Wonder how long I'll have to wait... Seb On 7 February 2012 13:50, Andrew Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking along the same lines for car journeys. A crowd sourced > satnav system could better predict congestion but as users you'd have to > submit hopefully anonymous data. It could also send a portion of the > users one way and send the others an alternative route to spread the > load. > > I don't know how you could apply the same thinking to public transport. > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Stephen Booth wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone was aware of, or had considered developing, >> a way of crowd sourcing route finding (like using Get Directions on >> Google Maps). I'm thinking in particular of local journeys where >> there might be lots of different potential routes where as there's >> only a few reasonable routes to get from say Birmingham to Manchester. >> >> I'm moving house next week and was checking what routes Google Maps >> suggests from where I'll be moving to to places I frequently need to >> go. Basically I was checking if there was a better route than the one >> I already know (it's the area I grew up in and where my sister already >> lives), I found that the routes I already know tended to be a lot >> shorter and quicker. That got me thinking that it would be good if >> there was a mechanism by which I could tell Google that actually there >> was a better route and hence the idea of a route finder site which >> crowd sources the routes. >> >> Essentially what I'm thinking is a site which initially applies a >> similar process to Google Maps and similar sites. Users, if they know >> a better route, can enter that route (maybe draw it on a map or even >> use a FourSquare style app to walk/drive/bus/train the route and check >> in at major turning points/changes (e.g. when they get on or off a bus >> or train). This could also be used to add timing information to the >> route (maybe according to the time table it's supposed to take the bus >> 30 minutes to do a journey but actually it tends to take 45, maybe a >> distance that would normally take 10 minutes to walk takes 20 because >> it involves crossing busy roads &c). The software would then break >> the journey into logical lengths (when they leave/join a major road, >> reach a landmark (such as a train station, city centre, shopping >> centre, hospital, major junction &c), get on or off a train or get on >> or off a bus or pass through a stage boundary). When someone requests >> a route the software would stitch together these lengths to find the >> shortest journey. >> >> Possible or pipe dream? >> >> Stephen >> >> -- >> It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. >> >> http://stephensorablog.blogspot.com/ | >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenboothuk | Skype: stephenbooth_uk >> >> Apparently I'm a "Eierlegende Woll-Milch-Sau", I think it was meant as >> a compliment. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> developers-public mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >> Unsubscribe: >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/andy%40planetnomad.com >> > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/seb.bacon%40gmail.com -- skype: seb.bacon mobile: 07790 939224 land: 01531 671074 _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
