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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Marcus Wolschon wrote:
> 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,...

I think there is also a very strong motive to map things "correctly" 
which will help. Of course you are right about vandalism but we will 
have to find ways to deal with that anyway; even now it is easy for 
someone to just place a barrier=gate on the road in front of their house.

> 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.

I don't share your enthusiasm; we might get a few people driving around 
with clumsy devices or some hacked software on their PDAs which works 
half of the time, but this is really something where I believe the big 
players will one day just build it into their Tomtom and Medion devices 
and that's that.

But you're welcome to prove me wrong. After all there were enough people 
who said that OSM won't work for the same reasons ;-)

Bye
Frederik