If anyone wants to do something with London, you can download traffic flow data for different vehicle types from the London Energy and Greenhouse Gas Inventory:
http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/leggi-2008-database I produced a pretty picture of taxi traffic a while back, I've stuck it on Flickr to show the sort of data you can get: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomchance/5392689324 Regards, Tom On 27 January 2011 00:59, Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > The traffic is a fluctuating measurement. > OpenStreetMap is about the objects and networks on the ground. > > Yes your idea is good and I've had a similar idea with bicycle parking > (when is a rack full, empty, or in-between). It makes sense to keep it in a > designated database. When one enters data they can say what time of day it > was and how long they sat there for. You can combine all the entries and > then automatically translate that too things like "at current time of day it > is x cars/hour" or "it is on average x cars/hour during the day". > You can of course still work with the OSM data. > > -- > Gregory > [email protected] > http://www.livingwithdragons.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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