On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Sam Vekemans <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds awesome! > > So in english, thats "your adding an extra tag on all the roads so > that an external app can broadcast exactly where the traffic > congestion is."
Not exactly. MUCH better. That "extra app" is "every major radio broadcasting network", that broadcasting is going on for decades now all across europe and a few other countries (like the US). AND it can be received with every slightly better GPS-receiver for something like 30eur in your car while driving. And it´s absolutely FREE as in free beer. Also it´s not just "there is a traffic congestion" but also it´s length, average speed, expected duration, suggested alternative route and other events like weather-issues, closed lanes, emergencies. Also it is based on RDS and SOME stations do actually broadcast DGPS-data in RDS *hint*. (I have not seen the later in the field yet but I have read what message-types it is encoded in when broadcast. Then again, I only have the signals of 3 countries to choose from.) Marcus _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
