Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-25 Thread peter
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 21:30 +0100, Eric Marsden wrote: Your proposal is interesting, but given the technical challenges you will face, it seems overly optimistic to me. Thats true, for sure it can't be done during GSoC. It is more or less a vision. But I'm not planning to stop developing

[OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Folks, A student has contacted me about a potential Google Summer of Code proposal to provide integration between OSM and Waze http://www.waze.com ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Waze_Integration ). I had never heard of Waze before, but it seems to be a combination

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Graham Jones wrote: 1. For some reason, Waze seem to be producing their own map rather than using OSM as the basis - does anyone know why? The student says he has contacted Waze and they said it was because of licensing issues - this is a surprise to me, because I

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread Nic Roets
Hello Graham, AFAIK Waze wants to build their own map of the world and sees OSM as competition. Waze has already imported TIGER, which is PD and I don't think Waze will be a viable concept without TIGER. SteveC reviewed their Iphone app on his blog. There is however scope for building our own

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread peter
Hello I have proposed a student project called Incorporation of Traffic Information and OpenStreetMap data[1] , which has similar goals like the integration of waze. But deals more with the server part of the application and will be (of course) as open as openstreetmap is. regards peter

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread steve brown
Hey Peter That looks very interesting. I'm actually halfway through a proposal for the same thing (for someone else to do) but you have got it all covered. The only thing I think you have missed is thinking about the temporal aspect of your data. For instance, I want a database that I can tell

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread peter
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 17:03 +, steve brown wrote: The only thing I think you have missed is thinking about the temporal aspect of your data. For instance, I want a database that I can tell roadworks here for 2 days or crash here, 2 hours until its cleared. Yes, your are absolutely

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread steve brown
Oh, and OpenSatNav is moving to launchpad, the old host was unreliable. S On Mar 24, 2010 5:36 PM, peter petervo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 17:03 +, steve brown wrote: The only thing I think you have missed is t... Yes, your are absolutely right. I forgot to add this

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread SteveC
it would be awesome to have a PND software base that fed back to OSM like waze does On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:46 AM, Graham Jones wrote: Hi Folks, A student has contacted me about a potential Google Summer of Code proposal to provide integration between OSM and Waze

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread Eric Marsden
pr == peter petervo...@gmail.com writes: pr I have proposed a student project called Incorporation of Traffic pr Information and OpenStreetMap data[1] , which has similar goals like pr the integration of waze. But deals more with the server part of the pr application and will be (of

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread Graham Jones
Hi, There have been a few good points raised while I have been away. I had not thought of producing a live traffic info service, but I can see it is possible. Just needs some careful up front design. The other is that the Waze client is actually a very nice little application (shame about the

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread steve brown
Hey I believe with a good UI (eg when the client software detects a user is going slower that expect On Mar 24, 2010 8:35 PM, Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr wrote: pr == peter petervo...@gmail.com writes: pr I have proposed a student project called Incorporation of Traffic pr

Re: [OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

2010-03-24 Thread steve brown
Sorry, phone keeps pressing wrong buttons for me, I may give up soon... but I think given good client software this could be a valuable project. At the very least, for any support for temporal restrictions we need something like this, and OpenSatNav would be able to make good use of this,