Hi Jed
I had a similar set of GPS data, though probably smaller. They were collected
by a nationwide survey over 4 months, covering the country of Swaziland. I
experimented with a number of things, including producing tile sets from the
data, and making it available for tracing in the HOT Tasking Server.
http://groundtruth.in/category/swaziland/
Maybe our experience there can spark some ideas. Happy to discuss this all more.
Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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> From: Jed Horne <j...@uber.com>
>To: imports@openstreetmap.org
>Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:07 PM
>Subject: [Imports] GPX imports from Uber
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>
>Hi,
>
>
>my name is Jed Horne and I am a data scientist with Uber (http://uber.com).
>My company makes an iPhone app that allows users to make on-demand requests
>for taxis, luxury sedans, and other vehicles. We currently operate in 25+
>cities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
>
>
>We have GPS traces going back about three years from our drivers, and I am
>interested in contributing back to the OSM community. I was planning on
>writing a script to anonymize and clean up our traces and export as GPX files
>(per instructions here
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Recording_GPS_tracks). However, I am very
>new to OSM contributing and was wondering if there is a set of best practices
>(how much is too much data, how to snip trips for privacy, etc.) or if there
>is someone I could work with directly to ensure that the data I give you is
>both private (for us and our clients/drivers) and useful (to the community).
>
>
>Specifically, I'm interested in using these traces to identify where we might
>be missing small connector roads or other features that could improve the
>accuracy of routing built on OSRM. Another potential application would be to
>help identify areas of bad traffic or help improve speed profile information -
>I realize this isn't something currently supported by OSM but to the extent
>our data are useful for new or experimental features or data sets I'd like to
>know how to help out.
>
>
>If anyone has direct experience in this area I'm open to thoughts and
>suggestions. Also, if anyone knows people who I should contact it would be
>awesome if you could make an introduction. We have a very large volume of
>data that I hope can significantly improve the quality of OSM.
>
>
>Best,
>
>
>Jed Horne
>Uber Technologies
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