[OSM-talk] Outperforming TomTom

[Lester Caine]

Johan C wrote:
> Unfortunately not available everywhere yet, but as a step towards becoming the
> best map in the world: after the publication of open address data in the
> Netherlands two years ago, starting this month open traffic data will be
> available in The Netherlands http://www.ndw.nu/pagina/nl/103/datalevering/ This
> will mean that OSM navigation apps will be able to outperform TomTom due to the
> better road quality. Hopefully the rest of Europe can follow soon. This would
> inevitably mean headlines in major newspapers and therefore a huge increase in
> mappers. Let's rock!

It always amuses me that 'the cloud' was originally about using all of the spare 
processing power available and sharing out problems. Since the majority of sat 
nav's are now smart devices, why can't they all be reporting back the average 
speed where they are so we can automatically map the current traffic hot spots? 
To my mind that is the next logical step for the routing software?
Of cause some will complain about 'privacy' but personally I'd be happy for 
people to know where I am, so a permanent sat nav in the car rather than one in 
my pocket makes even more sense if I want to know where my car has gone ;)

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