[Routing] Crowdsourced costing - offer of writing a client+metric for it

[Marcus Wolschon]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:37:49 +0100, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
wrote:
> But the one thing we have and they don't is, we have an expert among us 
> for almost every single road! We have someone who lives round the corner 
> and who can tell us first-hand whether the road is likely to be blocked 
> or difficult at certain times, which path he would use, and so on. This 
> is the key thing that sets us apart from the big players, and we must 
> make use of this capacity. Automatic derivation of traffic situation 
> data is not an OSM USP, everyone can (and will) do it.

Helle Frederic,

I see automatic meassurements as one thing we simply can do.
As for tapping into the pool of mapperss, I do't see HOW
we can do that without opening every door to vandalist.
Since the local people are also the ones who want their
street to be nice and quiet and less traffic to cross in front
of thei're kids schools,...

You are right, that this is one thing we have and the professionals
don't. But just because eventually others will collect data too
does not mean that we shouldn't start doing it.
We can set the standards for traffic-meassurement and car2car because
we can be the first that actually get such a thing deployed on the
road. Thus we can make sure that the protocolls we employ are simple
to understand and can be implemented (both client and server) by everyone
without joining an industry-consortium and paying a fortune for the
previledge of looking at their cryptic standard.

Marcus