[OSM-talk] Outperforming TomTom

[Toby Murray]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns <lafriks at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Free version of such data would be great and as I allways have data on on
> my phone I won't have problem with that. I was thinking on implementing
> something like that but at least for me, main problem is server(s) where
> that data would go and that would aggregate them as that would be quite
> much data if it's used by many people (and we would need many people to use
> it, if we want to get good qualitty data out of it)...
>
>
>
> 2013/9/12 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk>
>
>> Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>> That data is already available for sale from mobile network operators -
>>> that is
>>> why you don't see much interest in having navigation devices provide
>>> feedback:
>>> every mobile device is already providing ample sampling. Of course that
>>> doesn't
>>> help the free world very much...
>>>
>>
>> That is why what I'm thinking is the 'free' version ;)
>> A sort of agreed standard linked to the various OSM routing options?
>>
>> Maarten - I can understand your reluctance on always on data, currently I
>> do get gaps in the mapping on the motorways here were there simply isn't
>> any cover, but moving forward I think that particular problem will
>> eventually be fixed.
>>
>>
Telenav has been working on an open standard for traffic data based on OSM
for a couple of years. See their presentation at SOTM-US:
http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68096028

Might be nice for someone at Telenav to write up a quick wiki page about
the TTL standard :)

Toby
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