[OSM-dev] Open Social Routing Idea: Request for preliminary comments

[Thomas Meller]

@Ivan: I agree.
The more people using my favourite route, the slower I will get forward, so why should I share?

Answer: not at all if I know which informations my actions do supply to the service.

But: tell the user to make a perfect route for her purpose if she supplies the service with detail information such as car type, personal driving style, comfort preference, urgency, and, of course, starting time and personally expected arrival time. And don't forget about the feedback next time she logs in again. (think carefully about the validity of the result)

last.fm names this 'skobbling' and gives you recommendations, groups user types and creates correlations to form groups by similarity of preferences.

The idea is not bad, but I don't expect it to grow successful, especially because the project's scope is short-term. You need a deep breath to get it all sexy and charming enough for average people to use. Without a wide userbase such a service won't get any value.

Creating the toolset services like this could be based upon looks promising, though.

Thomas

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:37:02 +0200
> Von: "Iván Sánchez Ortega" <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
> An: dev at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-dev] Open Social Routing Idea: Request for preliminary	comments

> El 19/04/2010 16:56, Jonas Gabriel escribió:
> > Every person creates  personal routes based on his knowledge of his
> > living area.[...] Then a service could produce routes by using
> > members of this "alternative routing graph forest" connected by a
> > traditional routing service [...]
> >
> > I would like to hear some of your comments.Does it make any sense?
> 
> Yeah, it makes sense and would be doable by lowering the weights of the 
> graph arcs in the routing algorithm for every uploaded route, or add a 
> new arc for every uploaded route, with a lowered weight.
> 
> However, besides from being a cool research project... what problem does 
> it *solve*? Why would *I* be interested in uploading routes to such a 
> service?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
> 
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