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The people who generate the traffic news bulletins for local radio stations have had this sort of system for years - it's not wrapped up in trendy terms like "c
by andyking 17y ago
The people who generate the traffic news bulletins for local radio stations have had this sort of system for years - it's not wrapped up in trendy terms like "crowdsourcing", but it is very similar.
They take phone calls from the public about traffic problems, log them all down in a system called Regis and are able to identify trends and blackspots from the years of accumulated data. Now, if the traffic news people could somehow make use of this GMaps data...