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I think real time traffic awareness is exactly what the poster wanted, but yeah it seems like people who don’t need that would be better off using OSS where pos
by sudhirj 7y ago
I think real time traffic awareness is exactly what the poster wanted, but yeah it seems like people who don’t need that would be better off using OSS where possible.
- samcheng 7y agoYeah, unfortunately I'm not aware of any open/free sources of real-time traffic data.
- hkeide 7y agoThe various European governments have free data but it’s not very granular.
- DeathArrow 7y agoMaybe there is the opportunity for someone starting an open source solution to provide real time traffic data. Until now there wasn't a need since Google provided the data for free. But everything changed and I bet there are lots of people who need the data but can't afford paying Google. The only question is how you gather the data since you don't have Google maps and Waze? You can try to provide a Waze alternative, but how would you convince people to use it?
- karussell 7y agoHere is a collection I started some time ago: https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection
- samcheng 7y agoThese seem to be average / historical data sets, not "is there an accident / traffic jam on my route right now." Thanks for the excellent work, though!
- Reason077 7y agoMapBox makes their global real-time traffic data available on commercial terms. Not free, but could be a credible alternative to paying Google prices: https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data/ https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data/
- kwhitefoot 7y agoIf they run a lot of buses they have some traffic awareness built in to the system. I dare say not as good as Google but a knowing that a bus that is already on a segment that another bus is due to enter is delayed surely allows you to adjust the predicted arrival time of both buses.