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On a different but similar idea, I had the idea of using dashcam footage to read petrol station (gas stations for you lot over the pond) signs and get info abou

On a different but similar idea, I had the idea of using dashcam footage to read petrol station (gas stations for you lot over the pond) signs and get info about pricing for fuel. You could reduce the amount of processing required by only looking for pricing info near a station based on gps. My blackview dashcam stores the video along with gps on a microsd card and it can be accessed using a http connection when on wifi. Just never got to it.

kevincox 3y ago
At least in Canada gas prices are available in Google Maps. IDK where this data comes from but I wonder if it is publicly available (or at least can be scraped from Google). It isn't 100% reliable but is very good, maybe 95% accurate?
- judge2020 3y ago
  Circa 2010 GasBuddy[0] was a pretty novel app for smartphones that allowed crowd-sourcing gas prices around you. I imagine OPIS[1] (now owned by News Corp), who acquired GasBuddy, or one of the other Price Reporting Agencies, is providing Google with this gas price information. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GasBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GasBuddy 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Price_Information_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Price_Information_Service
  - kevincox 3y ago
    I'd be surprised if it was crowd sourced. Even in fairly rural areas the prices of all stations are regularly updated. Crowd sourcing things like traffic data works as even a few people driving down a road can passively report data. It seems unlikely that manually entering gas data that changes daily would be sufficient to achieve such good coverage.
    - ceejayoz 3y ago
      Waze asks me to report gas data manually when I stop at a gas station.
    - judge2020 3y ago
      You're right, i edited my comment after you viewed the page. While GasBuddy started out crowdsourced, it seems there are now price reporting agencies that log prices directly from retailers and I imagine Google pulls data from one of them.
- tiernano 3y ago
  Waze has it, but not though CarPlay... and its not automated...
rkangel 3y ago
This is going to be sorted in the UK through legal means rather than your clever technical workaround: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232
rangestransform 3y ago
it would be cool to crowdsource police traffic enforcement locations automatically from phones mounted to dashboards
- tiernano 3y ago
  Thats what Waze does, but not so automagically...

kevincox 3y ago

At least in Canada gas prices are available in Google Maps. IDK where this data comes from but I wonder if it is publicly available (or at least can be scraped from Google). It isn't 100% reliable but is very good, maybe 95% accurate?

judge2020 3y ago
Circa 2010 GasBuddy[0] was a pretty novel app for smartphones that allowed crowd-sourcing gas prices around you. I imagine OPIS[1] (now owned by News Corp), who acquired GasBuddy, or one of the other Price Reporting Agencies, is providing Google with this gas price information. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GasBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GasBuddy 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Price_Information_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Price_Information_Service
- kevincox 3y ago
  I'd be surprised if it was crowd sourced. Even in fairly rural areas the prices of all stations are regularly updated. Crowd sourcing things like traffic data works as even a few people driving down a road can passively report data. It seems unlikely that manually entering gas data that changes daily would be sufficient to achieve such good coverage.
  - ceejayoz 3y ago
    Waze asks me to report gas data manually when I stop at a gas station.
  - judge2020 3y ago
    You're right, i edited my comment after you viewed the page. While GasBuddy started out crowdsourced, it seems there are now price reporting agencies that log prices directly from retailers and I imagine Google pulls data from one of them.
tiernano 3y ago
Waze has it, but not though CarPlay... and its not automated...

rkangel 3y ago

This is going to be sorted in the UK through legal means rather than your clever technical workaround: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232

rangestransform 3y ago

it would be cool to crowdsource police traffic enforcement locations automatically from phones mounted to dashboards

tiernano 3y ago
Thats what Waze does, but not so automagically...