[OSM-talk] travel-time-maps

[Greg]

I have a proposition that I'd like to discuss for open mapping. It's not my 
idea originally but Chris Lightfoot's (the late genius of social computing 
projects). One of his projects was undertaken a while back for the UK's 
Department of Transport but seems to have languished unused ever since.

The project can be found here: 
http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/index.php#examples

It strikes me that this kind of journey time contours map has great value, 
especially if it relies on genuine travel data from motivated participants. I 
could imagine an open source solution using a mobile/GPS combo being used to 
show real-time travel time data - where the user can change the time base for 
a running average (from 'this hour' to 'this year')

I hope I'm not revisiting a topic that has been done to death in this forum - 
I couldn't find anything with a fairly cursory search.

Let me know what you think.
-- 
Greg