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Competition in the maps space is severally needed right now with the closure of smaller services over the past few years, the amount of data Apple has and CAN e
by CommanderData 8y ago
Competition in the maps space is severally needed right now with the closure of smaller services over the past few years, the amount of data Apple has and CAN expose will make it a real contender, compared to smaller Map data services that don't availability of always-on real time data.
Popular times in Google Maps is incredibly useful but request to open this are ignored. I hope with Apple competing, both make this data available.
I would consider this in my next project, it would be nice to see pricing.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoWould it be possible for OSM to provide these services at cost to fund their operations? At some point we need to stop reinventing the wheel at each org and work on contrivuint g collectively for common shared Internet resources (just like Wikipedia).
- CommanderData 8y agoOSM and others have limited availability of real time data, the smaller services leverage data from prediction models and some even get data upstream from Google through third parties. Every Google Android device is by default a real time tracking device. The usefulness of this data is immensely underrated. The only way I think real competition can be established here is exactly with news like this.
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- rmc 8y ago> Would it be possible for OSM to provide these services at cost to fund their operations? "Real time data" means things like "current traffic data", right? That takes a lot of data collectors, and the data gets stale quickly. This sort of thing isn't on the radar for lots in the OSM community, I don't even know how OSM'd start trying to provide that...