>> Now, I had an idea which is making a vehicle tracking system and encouraging >> companies to use it and through this adding tracks in to OSM.
I've had same idea and done some trials. I have a blackbox in my car for a year or so, and it stores GPS traces to a tracking system over GPRS. These look nice, but if you look closer then they are not really useful for OSM updates: - the tracker stores location in every 1 minute, and after turns. But you don't get precise crossings, but some location many meters after it. As result the GPS track is not matching roads well. See attached random sample. - they have no tags If you have on-device storage of GPS locations in every second or so, then the first issue would be solved. And maybe some other GPS tracker has better way to detect when to send on-line locations, but I'm afraid none of them does it in every second to get good-quality trace. I have also output USB cable from the in-car GPS blackbox to connect it to computer, but I've used it only once as it was very-very inconvenient (you have to power laptop, start and monitor proper software etc). I rather take a Garmin Oregon with me when I go mapping with car, then you just turn it on and check if it has battery. > As far I know there is not an open source fleet tracking software > right now. There is http://opengts.sourceforge.net/, UI looks ugly for me (like most open source software), but seems to be quite powerful and extendable. Btw, it uses OSM as default global map. -- Jaak Laineste _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
