[OSM-talk] putting GPS units in taxis
Russ Nelson
russ at cloudmade.com
Mon Jun 15 18:03:40 BST 2009
On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:03 AM, David Earl wrote:
> The problem about doing this is that like the other similar
> initiatives
> that have been tried before (couriers in London for example), it
> doesn't
> actually advance things that much because it doesn't gather the
> crucial
> street name and number information.
But it does tell us several other things: routability and speed. Here
in the US, we have the tiger data, which is 90% correct. Trouble is
that we don't know WHICH 90% is the correct 90%. GPS tracks will tell
us a lot.
--
Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson
russ at cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson
More information about the talk
mailing list