Hi, Jaak Laineste wrote: > I would suggest to have live traffic event data, collectable mostly using > mobile devices from the road. The events could be:
To all those wo suggest some sort auf automatic data collection for routing, my answer is: Yes, this may be a good idea, but others will beat us to it. Tomtom, Garmin, Google - whoever does routing will have an interest in that, and will, as soon as feasible, make devices that actually report the traffic situation in real-time. We might be able to match that with a lot of effort and hacking their devices to report data to us as well, but we'll never be the frontrunner on this topic. But the one thing we have and they don't is, we have an expert among us for almost every single road! We have someone who lives round the corner and who can tell us first-hand whether the road is likely to be blocked or difficult at certain times, which path he would use, and so on. This is the key thing that sets us apart from the big players, and we must make use of this capacity. Automatic derivation of traffic situation data is not an OSM USP, everyone can (and will) do it. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list Routing@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/routing
