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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks agoHas anyone actually created a traffic plugin yet?
Nah, because the organic team doesnt wanna deal with collecting user data. Getting live location data from millions of people requires using and feeding into google services and thats a no go.
Location data is just too sensitive and impossible to anonymize properly. No matter what you do, there will always be some company that has to collect all the data. That company no matter how cool and FOSS will eventually be forced to cooperate with law enforcement and then you are back to what we have now.
Adiemus@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
But isn’t there a poxxibility to fetch data from official websites (like stau.info in Germany) around your place? It won’t be as good as google, but better than nothing.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
As long as it only pulls data and doesnt share any its not as bad. But each of these local services most likely use different APIs and formats, so implementing it wont be so easy. For just large highways its realistic imo, but if you want data for inside cities it becomes impossible.
If the database of traffic info become so large that it’s impossible to download it all at once it means you have to selectively download data for your location/route which makes it possible to infer user location again.