[OSM-talk] average speed as opposed to speed limit in calculating routes
Toby Murray
toby.murray at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 01:20:26 BST 2012
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Eric Marsden <eric.marsden at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> "rn" == renato <rennabh at gmail.com> writes:
>
> rn> Could something like this be done in OSM? Has someone ever thought of
> rn> it? First thought would be an average_speed_by_car tag, that navigators
> rn> could use in calculating routes. Even better would be an automated way
> rn> of updating these tags by users using the navigator.
>
> Hi,
>
> See the following thread for a discussion of prior work on this
> subject in OSM (including code developed during a 2010 GSOC project).
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.devel/21542
There is trafficspeed.org which was announced back in January:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-January/061479.html
Like any traffic system, it requires a critical mass of users which
isn't there at the moment.
Toby
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