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hey........ i have a wildly awesome idea about improving OSM. can anyone build this and help the community? i would help by giving my time.... here is the idea

hey........ i have a wildly awesome idea about improving OSM. can anyone build this and help the community? i would help by giving my time.... here is the idea. a ride sharing app uses OSM for routing and such. fine. The driver follows the map but some times there are new turns or changes to road that are not in the map, or there are some improvements. my idea. the ride sharing app has the historical "ACTUAL" rides that have already taken place. we build a tool that takes point A&B from the route given and plots its own normal route. the actual trip and "Expected" trip are overlaid and if there are deviations, the software (after some adjustments for errors) this can give us a high level idea of the general map to actual route. this can also tell mappers which routes to fix and stuff... there is one tool that does manually but i would be like for large number of routes that would be matched 1:1.

mtmail 4y ago
Grab (https://www.grab.com/my/ https://www.grab.com/my/), Amazon Logistics, Apple (afaik) and some other mobile apps already do this. Full-time staff are correcting OpenStreetMap with one-way restrictions, speed limits, road width. Strava allows OpenStreetMap mappers to see where people walked/cycled to identify missing paths. Facebook is tracing new roads based on machine-learning satellite imagery (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RapiD https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RapiD).
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  I get that. I am saying such a tool should exist for people to do the same thing.
- raybb 4y ago
  FYI there's a list of all the companies doing stuff with OSM on the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activi...