[OSM-newbies] Navigation with Online Maps

[Esben Stien]

Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> writes:

> TMC in many countries is a free service transmitted alongside broadcast
> radio, the wiki page I believe give details of the open standards which
> we could use.

I'm not really interested in using TMC, cause we don't have community
control. 

> Gathering traffic details is a huge real-time logistical, and expensive,
> operation. It is not something that the community could hope to match.

Here in Norway we have several communities covering large areas of the
country reporting real time mobile police checkpoints. One site is
collecting this information and gives out a file with structured text
describing lon and lat and the type of police checkpoints, so the
community is really active regarding this.

We have the structured data, but we have no way to distribute this data
through OSM, it seems, because there is no real time traffic layer and
because I can't find a navigation client that works directly with OSM. 

I've looked at openrouteservice.org which actually directly uses OSM,
which seems like the only one, but this is a web service. 

We need a real time traffic layer for OSM, community controlled, where
the community can report such things as closed roads, car crashes,
traffic jams and mobile police check points.

That way, clients that uses static maps can have real time event
information based on the route they are taking. I'm really amazed we
don't already have something like this. 

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