Hello Graham, AFAIK Waze wants to build their own map of the world and sees OSM as competition. Waze has already imported TIGER, which is PD and I don't think Waze will be a viable concept without TIGER. SteveC reviewed their Iphone app on his blog.
There is however scope for building our own Waze infrastructure: 1. Mobile apps for collecting tracklogs. Or libraries that app developers can use. 2. A repository for GPX data that does not have the privacy concerns our repository current have. 3. Algorithms for fixing TIGER data using GPX tracks and / or detecting delays in the road network. Regards, Nic On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Graham Jones <grahamjones...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > A student has contacted me about a potential Google Summer of Code proposal > to provide integration between OSM and > Waze (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Waze_Integration). > I had never heard of Waze before, but it seems to be a combination of a user > contributed map (like OSM), and traffic information, again user contributed. > It sounds sensible to me to use OSM as the base map, and Waze to handle the > traffic information. > There are a couple of things that I do not understand though, and would > appreciate some help so that I can guide the student appropriately: > > For some reason, Waze seem to be producing their own map rather than using > OSM as the basis - does anyone know why? The student says he has contacted > Waze and they said it was because of licensing issues - this is a surprise > to me, because I think our license is pretty relaxed. Has anyone been in > touch with them about it? (Please don't turn this into a 'OSM should be PD' > dabate!!). > Assuming that the license issue can be sorted, has anyone looked at what > Waze are doing and how it could be used with OSM? If so, can you suggest > some ideas for a closed-scope student project? > > Thanks for your help! > Regards > Graham. > -- > Dr. Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK > email: grahamjones...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev