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I'm still waiting for smartphones to be more fully crowd sourced into maps. I badly want real-time traffic data to come from smartphones.
by forrestthewoods 12y ago
I'm still waiting for smartphones to be more fully crowd sourced into maps. I badly want real-time traffic data to come from smartphones.
- beering 12y agoThis already happens on Google Maps. Or do you mean in an open-data way?
- forrestthewoods 12y agoIs the data gathered from crowdsourced smartphones? If it is then the precision is shit. Waze has been continuously unimpressive in dense urban environments. It can sometimes take 15 minutes to go two blocks through two lights. And neither Waze nor Google Maps correctly show that. Using the GPS drains battery and there are huge privacy concerns. It's not an easy thing to do right. But I think it can be done.
- wmeredith 12y ago>>Is the data gathered from crowdsourced smartphones? Yes. Google deduces traffic congestion by the speed of Android devices in cars.
- alxndr 12y agoHave you looked at Waze?
- forrestthewoods 12y agoYes. It's several steps in the right direction. The god damn achievements and items and ads are incredibly annoying. But it's a good step. It also isn't used by enough people. How many drivers have smartphones? How many of those are contributing traffic data? The answer is, respectively, a lot and almost none.
- kps 12y agoI think that Android phone users who have opted in (Settings > Location > Google Location Reporting) are contributing traffic data when they're on a road and moving, or not, as the case may be.
- jjp 12y agoInteresting read on TomTom's approach - http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/How-TomTom-Makes-Maps-Part-4-HD-Traffic.php http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/How-TomTom-Makes-Maps-Part-4-H...