Submitted 15 hours ago by Zurgo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I’m specifically meaning the traffic mapping and collaborative reporting side of Waze and Gmaps, I know navigation via Comaps is possible but I haven’t seen anything that I can contribute to, to help others with time estimates etc.
There’s this project, which I believe just needs to be integrated into the map of your choice (OsmAnd has support already if I’m not mistaken).
No.
I use herewego when I need traffic data. afaict, it’s from the company tomtom and uses the data they are gathering from thier truck logistics business. Based in Germany.
Wait, Tom Tom is German? So European.
TomTom is based in the Netherlands.
Indeed, no but demand is rising as osm becomes known and a legit map replacement.
Give me android implementation.
Or rather give me phone projection that isnt tied to google or apple.
The biggest problem is scale. You need enough people to use it to even be remotely useful. Google has the movement data for so many phones that the can detect traffic problem only through the phones moving more slowly. Then there is waze where people actively add data. Even if there was an app that had the same functionality you wouldn’t get any benefit if you are the only in a 100km radius.
Waze is also owned by google.
I know. I was just talking about the amount of data that is available that is hard to reproduce in the FOSS world.
As it should be, I’ll reference the openTraffic effort wich I think is stale since about 10years. There definitely is a need for this infrastructure as opensource map users grow along the years. github.com/opentraffic
It’s recommended to use CoMaps as that is the more-ethical successor to Organic Maps. (If you’re not aware, there was a problem with Organic Maps being very…non-transparent should I say, and people got fed up with it and forked the project with the intent of establishing a successor app but that was more dedicated to transparency in decision-making.
ok, i was not aware, thank you for the info
And CoMaps is its fork.
I believe Murena Maps is working on implementing traffic data. I don’t love their turn by turn, but if they do get traffic data, I’ll use it.
Steve@communick.news 15 hours ago
No. Live traffic data is too much server overhead for an monetized service.
Linearity@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
There’s definitely a way to implement it while maintaining privacy
We just need a company or organization that’s not comically evil
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
In a capitalist system? Good luck with that.
A nonprofit organization, sure, but definitely not a company or a not-for-profit organization.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 10 hours ago
In the meantime one could parasitically use the Data from Google, e.g. in OSMAnd Link (in German but with useful screenshots).