<div dir="ltr">Thanks!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Alex Barth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@mapbox.com" target="_blank">alex@mapbox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Jed -<div><br></div><div>The simplest move is to open the data under a very permissive license (ideally public domain, e. g. cc0) and provide it for download. This will not guarantee any contributions but it's the first step to actually enabling it. What about scrubbing all personal information from it and put it up on your web site for download?</div>
<div><br></div><div>A next step could be to render a full tile set of this data for manual contributions and cross checking from within editors like JOSM or iD.</div><div><br></div><div>From there you can make it a research project :) If you're interested in what information you can actually programmatically deduce from your probe data, I recommend talking to some of the guys out there who're trying to do the same: TeleNav, Skobbler would be some.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jed Horne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@uber.com" target="_blank">jed@uber.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I sent this to the imports list already and someone suggested I loop in dev. Any advice is welcome!<div>
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jed Horne</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@uber.com" target="_blank">jed@uber.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:07 PM<br>Subject: GPX imports from Uber<br>To: <a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">imports@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">my name is Jed Horne and I am a data scientist with Uber (<a href="http://uber.com/" target="_blank">http://uber.com</a>). My company makes an iPhone app that allows users to make on-demand requests for taxis, luxury sedans, and other vehicles. We currently operate in 25+ cities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We have GPS traces going back about three years from our drivers, and I am interested in contributing back to the OSM community. I was planning on writing a script to anonymize and clean up our traces and export as GPX files (per instructions here <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks</a>). However, I am very new to OSM contributing and was wondering if there is a set of best practices (how much is too much data, how to snip trips for privacy, etc.) or if there is someone I could work with directly to ensure that the data I give you is both private (for us and our clients/drivers) and useful (to the community).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Specifically, I'm interested in using these traces to identify where we might be missing small connector roads or other features that could improve the accuracy of routing built on OSRM. Another potential application would be to help identify areas of bad traffic or help improve speed profile information - I realize this isn't something currently supported by OSM but to the extent our data are useful for new or experimental features or data sets I'd like to know how to help out.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If anyone has direct experience in this area I'm open to thoughts and suggestions. Also, if anyone knows people who I should contact it would be awesome if you could make an introduction. We have a very large volume of data that I hope can significantly improve the quality of OSM.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Jed Horne<br>Uber Technologies</div></div>
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