it is nice to have maps that focus on showing streets and car routes and
names ... but i can imagine other simpler maps that might be pretty useful
that perhaps large vendors might not tackle.
so compete by shifting some energy to doing something different.
in particular it would be nice to just paint the aggregated user gps traces
- without names, intersections, or routing... and to paint them 'live'.
with just aggregated traces you could show navigable routes for pedestrians,
cars and bikes, you could route-find by just looking for the best traces
with nearby end-points { for that time of day etc } ... you could show
heat-maps ... you could better indicate transitions like road to ferry to
road... and show real total time cost better... you could make { dangerous
} games like best time performance...
- a
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Will King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Coast's recent post - http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=307 - regarding
> mapmaker was entitled ""Google wants to be Teleatlas" got me thinking a bit
> more about the data they are capturing in their StreetView project. It's
> common knowledge that they are capturing images and now lidar based 3d data
> but this is all linked to location using GPS.
>
> Once they have driven the streets all they need now to basically become
> navteq/teleatlas themselves is streetnaming and data cleansing, something
> which can be done using the imagery or mapmaker when it is fully rolled
> out. They can even capture things like bridge heights using lidar.
>
> I'd also expect them to be capturing wifi hotspots and cell towers as they
> drive.
>
> Paranoid?
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