<div dir="ltr">Hi Jed,<div><br></div><div>This Sounds great! We don't get too many bulk GPX imports. I have not done one myself. Just shooting from hip. </div><div><br></div><div>- Ian Dees does a lot of stuff with GPS data.</div>
<div style>- We need to make sure the license of the GPX files is ok for uploading.</div><div style>- You will need a dedicated OSM account. </div><div style>- You will probably need to write some scripts to upload the GPX files to the OSM API server. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#GPS_traces">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#GPS_traces</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>- As far as scrubbing them, I assume at the very least you will want to reset the time stamps so that all your traces start form the same time/day. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>- How much data do you have? </div><div style><br></div><div style>Thanks</div><div style>Jason</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Jed Horne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@uber.com" target="_blank">jed@uber.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"><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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