On 29 June 2010 12:43, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Julian, > > This is a very interesting idea - truth-checking the timetables > against the actual journey times. > > My main concern is that you don't want one person to have a bad > journey home on a slow bus, and then the whole map changes, making > people decide not to buy a house'/set up a business in that whole part > of town because of one aberrant bit of data. > > There are people who have data you could use with the volume required > for bad data to be ruled out - the bus GPS systems themselves, mobile > phone companies, even transport passanger surveys. Or maybe it is time > to launch an OSM style project for voluntarily gathered transport > performance data - data that isn't owned exclusively by someone intent > on wringing all the cash out of it in their own pockets. > > In fact, here's an idea. A voluntarily installed mobile app that only > shares your location data when you appear to have taken some sort of > public transport along a known route, between known nodes.
I proposed something very like that in the last mySociety CFP.... http://www.mysociety.org/2009/08/10/aretheyontime/ > Just a leeetle bit tricksy Indeed... -- Peter Bowyer Email: [email protected] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
