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> I'd imagine Google et. al. are collecting that data [...] They are. All phones who have Google Maps installed, and have enabled reporting (anonymous) positio
by runeks 12y ago
> I'd imagine Google et. al. are collecting that data [...]
They are. All phones who have Google Maps installed, and have enabled reporting (anonymous) position data (might be default on some phones) are helping Google both see if there's a traffic jam somewhere, and see what the actual driving speeds on the roads are (by sampling at a certain interval and seeing distance traveled over time).
I happily contribute to this, I think it's a great idea to crowd-source traffic data. I do hope Google makes the data publicly available though.
- Ecio78 12y agoWaze[1] is all based on users' feedback and has been acquired by Google in 2013, so I think we'll see this more and more.. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze
- Ecio78 12y agoWaze[1] is all based on users' feedback and has been acquired by Google in 2013, so I think we'll see this more and more.. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze