[OSM-talk] oneway=1

[Andrew MacKinnon]

On 10/4/07, Florian Loitsch <openstreetmap at florian.loitsch.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 00:32:54 Arieh Skliarouk wrote:
> [SKIP]
> > Just think, couple taxi drivers [compensated correspondingly] with
> > GPS-tracer turned on and SD big enough in two days will cover area
> > that will take bike tracer year to trace.
> Taxi drivers may be a good source of information, but I think nothing beats
> driving schools. You could probably even ask them to go to specific
> locations. In my area we have very good Yahoo coverage and I don't need any
> gps-traces, but otherwise I would have contacted them.
>
> The big problem however is not gps-traces, but the names, directions,
> limitations, ... of roads. That's the reason why yahoo-covered areas are not
> advancing that fast either.

What if we installed a video camera inside the vehicle, looking
outward? That way we could get all that information at the same time
as the GPS trace. The video camera would be synchronized with the GPS
using date/time stamp. I believe that the big mapping companies use
vans equipped with GPS and video cameras.