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Yeah, unfortunately I'm not aware of any open/free sources of real-time traffic data.
by samcheng 7y ago
Yeah, 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/