[OSM-newbies] Navigation with Online Maps

[Philip Barnes]

On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 14:50 +0200, Esben Stien wrote:
> "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > If what you want to map is so transient, I don't think OpenStreetMap is
> > the right place to put it. Data isn't pushed from the main server to
> > mirrors (that would require a budget), so if a feature is very
> > short-lived, mirrors might never know it had been there.
> 
> What about traffic information?, if f.ex a road is closed due to a car
> crash?
> 
> We don't have a layer of information where such data can be transferred
> more quickly?
> 
The OSM database is not the place for thing that a so transient.

Apps could be developed to use TMC, or other traffic databases in real
time.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TMC

Phil (trigpoint)