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What's the authoritative source for this data?

• maxerickson 11y ago
  I think at the moment it is still a plan. If it is successfully open source, there could be multiple organizations/groups that are maintaining traffic pools. For example, there isn't huge benefit to pooling traffic data between Australia and North America. Perhaps it would be convenient, but that's about it.
  • JupiterMoon 11y ago
    The benefit is that I can then take my phone with a navigation app with real time traffic updates that works in the US and use it in Aus without changing anything (mobile data costs aside).
    • lucb1e 11y ago
      Well the app needs to know where to find traffic data anyway, it could have a different source per region. That said, I'm not sure whether it's easier to have a big database or a separated one. With separation, many people could host parts of the traffic data. As a student I could even host something without getting huge costs. Without separation, you don't have the complexity of splitting per location. With separation, databases can be smaller and you can put a database with only what you need in that region. You don't want to have requests from Australia being answered (load balanced) to a European server anyway, so if you host Australia's part in Australia you'll have lower latency and a less complex database. Without separation, you don't have to keep multiple separate databases. It's a simpler, more unified design. I don't know which is better.
  • riordan 11y ago
    Oh, you mean Car Pools I'll show myself out
• iotakodali 11y ago
  they are working with world bank to source data from taxi firms and other companies which maintains these datasets