Dear community, I am in search of a Master Thesis' project idea in the field of Location Based Applications/Services. Last night I came across OpenRouteService.org<http://www.openrouteservice.org/>and had an epiphany about a routing service based on social contribution.Let me clear out my idea:
Every person creates personal routes based on his knowledge of his living area.For example Mr John Doe uses RouteX to get from LocationA to LocationB because between 15:00 and 21:00 traffic is low. This kind of routes could be uploaded at OpenStreetMap and piece-by-piece create an "alternative routing graph forest" (probably by using a tagging system) based on social contribution. Then a service could produce routes by using members of this "alternative routing graph forest" connected by a traditional routing service such as OpenRouteService.org <http://www.openrouteservice.org/>. An example: Let say Jane Does wants to go from LocationA to LocationD at 16:00. The system could instruct her to follow John Doe's RouteX from LocationA to LocationB, then use OpenRouteService.org to go from LocationB to LocationC and finaly use John Smith's RouteZ from LocationC to LocationD. I would like to hear some of your comments.Does it make any sense? Do you think is feasible as a Master Thesis' project, or is it too big, too small ?
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