Hi Jed, This Sounds great! We don't get too many bulk GPX imports. I have not done one myself. Just shooting from hip.
- Ian Dees does a lot of stuff with GPS data. - We need to make sure the license of the GPX files is ok for uploading. - You will need a dedicated OSM account. - You will probably need to write some scripts to upload the GPX files to the OSM API server. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#GPS_traces - As far as scrubbing them, I assume at the very least you will want to reset the time stamps so that all your traces start form the same time/day. - How much data do you have? Thanks Jason On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Jed Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > >
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