[OSM-dev] real-time traffic map
Rogier Wolff
R.E.Wolff at BitWizard.nl
Wed Aug 20 16:08:34 BST 2008
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:59:07PM +0100, Gregory wrote:
> 2008/8/20 Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff at bitwizard.nl>
>
> >
> >
> > I would expect that the userbase of OSM is too small to make accurate
> > travel-time estimates, based on (live) GPS tracks..... So I'm afraid
> > that in practise it won't work.
> >
> > And even less is the number of users that have some GPS system capable of
> communicating live with a server. We record the GPS track and later in the
> day/week upload it onto our computers.
> I suppose I could use my mobile phone to send my location, but
> a) that would be a cost on my phone bill
Out here, some people pay for a "flat fee mobile internet" connection.
If you send a 0.5k UDP packet, containing where you've been over
the last few minutes, this would be nice data.
> b) maybe I don't want you knowing where I am and how fast I'm going
This is an issue. The phone company already knows this, and they would
get into a big scandal if they suddenly started selling that data.
For OSM, this type of data should also lose the identifying
information as soon as possible. But the people having "root" access
to the server will always be able to put one and one together. (this
is no different from those having "root" at the phone company. But
those guys are bound by an NDA).
Roger.
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