Le 1 mai 2014 20:39, "Florian Lohoff" <[email protected]> a écrit :
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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 08:21:01PM +0200, Esben Stien wrote:
> > Philip Barnes <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > Apps could be developed to use TMC, or other traffic databases in real
> > > time.
> >
> > Do we have any traffic databases that is under community control?
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>
> When talking about "traffic database" you may refer to something like
> google traffic which is basically a real time traffic speed database.
> Its vast amount of data and you'll need a lot of mobile clients.
> I dont think the community is capable of a) paying for the central
> services and b) deploy the necessary amount of mobile clients giving
> feedback.
>
I'd say waze (1) does that...
All right it's commercial, but the data is from the community!
Not that I particulary like this proprietary, closed-mind service but it's
popular, and seems to work quite well.

(1) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze
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