[OSM-dev] Project Proposal - Waze Integration

[SteveC]

it would be awesome to have a PND software base that fed back to OSM like waze does

On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:46 AM, Graham Jones wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> A student has contacted me about a potential Google Summer of Code proposal to provide integration between OSM and Waze (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Waze_Integration).
> 
> I had never heard of Waze before, but it seems to be a combination of a user contributed map (like OSM), and traffic information, again user contributed.
> It sounds sensible to me to use OSM as the base map, and Waze to handle the traffic information.
> 
> There are a couple of things that I do not understand though, and would appreciate some help so that I can guide the student appropriately:
> 	• For some reason, Waze seem to be producing their own map rather than using OSM as the basis - does anyone know why?  The student says he has contacted Waze and they said it was because of licensing issues - this is a surprise to me, because I think our license is pretty relaxed.  Has anyone been in touch with them about it?  (Please don't turn this into a 'OSM should be PD' dabate!!).
> 	• Assuming that the license issue can be sorted, has anyone looked at what Waze are doing and how it could be used with OSM?  If so, can you suggest some ideas for a closed-scope student project?
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Graham.
> -- 
> Dr. Graham Jones
> Hartlepool, UK
> email: grahamjones139 at gmail.com
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Yours &c.

Steve