[talk-au] "Bad" directions on Outback roads

[Brendan Barnes]

Some jurisdictions do publish live traffic updates in GeoJSON, examples:

   - https://opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au/dataset/live-traffic-hazards
   -
   https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/131940-traffic-and-travel-information-geojson-api

Note a lot of these API feeds are licenced CC-BY, so downstream consumers
would need to comply with attribution requirements when synthesising OSM
and live traffic datasets.


On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 14:35, Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:

> We have a reasonable if not perfect tagging system for a router to assess
> (and make assumptions) about the quality of a road for various types of
> vehicle in BEST CASE  conditions. motorway versus track, tracktype, asphalt
> versus gravel being the main ones.
>
> From a router point of view it would be nice to dynamically place routing
> penalties on roads or stretches of road according to temperature, snow,
> rain, side wind (and ?). Simplistically, input "snow" and pick up from OSM
> tags advising "often impassable in snow" or "snow chains advised in winter"
> and then the router can decide how much penalty to apply given projected
> conditions and vehicle type.
>
> Sounds reasonably simple to devise and implement. I've played mentally
> with the same idea for suggesting footpath routes that vary depending on
> the weather.
>
> More esoterically and more real time would be a community project to
> develop an open overlay database of transient data where the public and/or
> authorities can label osm ways with advisories quantitative enough for
> routers to again assess a routing penalty. The obvious starting point would
> be a simply "closed".
>
>
> Mike
> On 9/2/22 1:17 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> Reading this article earlier:
>
>
> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-08/google-maps-to-fix-routes-trapped-travellers-queensland/100805884
>
> So what's the best way to avoid the same issues?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
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