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Re: OpenTrafficMap

#31

Post by alexpotato »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #29
solarpunk wrote: post #2

Cool, but it there's no links for more info, and it doesn't seem to work in the USA at all.

The site is definitely lacking. It's half in German, half in English. The concept is that there is this protocol called ITS-G5, which is a European profile of 802.11p. Vehicles and traffic infrastructure can transmit telemetry on 5 GHz. Other vehicles and traffic infrastructure can use it for situational awareness. This website collects that data using local receivers and aggregates it onto a map, similar to what web…

This should be a top level comment as it has a ton of useful info and can be voted to the top.

Re: OpenTrafficMap

#32

Post by [deleted] »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #29
solarpunk wrote: post #2

Cool, but it there's no links for more info, and it doesn't seem to work in the USA at all.

The site is definitely lacking. It's half in German, half in English. The concept is that there is this protocol called ITS-G5, which is a European profile of 802.11p. Vehicles and traffic infrastructure can transmit telemetry on 5 GHz. Other vehicles and traffic infrastructure can use it for situational awareness. This website collects that data using local receivers and aggregates it onto a map, similar to what web…

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Re: OpenTrafficMap

#33

Post by softgrow »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #29
solarpunk wrote: post #2

Cool, but it there's no links for more info, and it doesn't seem to work in the USA at all.

The site is definitely lacking. It's half in German, half in English. The concept is that there is this protocol called ITS-G5, which is a European profile of 802.11p. Vehicles and traffic infrastructure can transmit telemetry on 5 GHz. Other vehicles and traffic infrastructure can use it for situational awareness. This website collects that data using local receivers and aggregates it onto a map, similar to what web…

Reading the translation of the talk, public transport vehicles have a persistent MAC but for private cars the MAC address changes every 15 minutes.

Re: OpenTrafficMap

#34

Post by ufocia »

softgrow wrote: post #33
uyzstvqs wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site is definitely lacking. It's half in German, half in English. The concept is that there is this protocol called ITS-G5, which is a European profile of 802.11p. Vehicles and traffic infrastructure can transmit telemetry on 5 GHz. Other vehicles and traffic infrastructure can use it for situational awareness. This website collects that data using local receivers and aggregates it onto a map, similar to what web…

Reading the translation of the talk, public transport vehicles have a persistent MAC but for private cars the MAC address changes every 15 minutes.

That still doesn't seem very private.

Re: OpenTrafficMap

#35

Post by ufocia »

walrus01 wrote: post #6
solarpunk wrote: post #2

Cool, but it there's no links for more info, and it doesn't seem to work in the USA at all.

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen an American on the Internet assume that anything published in the English language must be US-centric...

It does have an English name, so why the surprise?

Re: OpenTrafficMap

#36

Post by BigToach »

lucideer wrote: post #27
bravoetch wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still wouldn't have nearly as many dollars if you subtracted the times those people were correct in that assumption. Personally I assumed the site would be global. It doesn't have any info though, so I rely on finding out somewhere else I guess.

> Personally I assumed the site would be global The only reason you would assume a site would be global is if your definition of "global" is "works in the US" & you never bother to check for support of other countries. I live in the anglosphere outside of the US & I encounter more than enough US-only web projects for that not be to a default assumption I hold. Most sites are not global - it's very odd to assume they…

Another reason could be that calling this OpenTrafficMap gives an impression that it is similar to OpenStreetMap, which is global.

Re: OpenTrafficMap

#37

Post by ufocia »

walrus01 wrote: post #20
hamdingers wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems pretty weird to use all English words in the domain for a service that offers no English translations and operates in no English speaking countries.

The Germans and Danes and Swedes and Norwegians I see on the Internet developing and publishing software often have a better grasp of the English language than many born in the USA Americans.

That's true for Scandinavians, Germans are not as gut.

Re: OpenTrafficMap

#40

Post by firesteelrain »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #29
solarpunk wrote: post #2

Cool, but it there's no links for more info, and it doesn't seem to work in the USA at all.

The site is definitely lacking. It's half in German, half in English. The concept is that there is this protocol called ITS-G5, which is a European profile of 802.11p. Vehicles and traffic infrastructure can transmit telemetry on 5 GHz. Other vehicles and traffic infrastructure can use it for situational awareness. This website collects that data using local receivers and aggregates it onto a map, similar to what web…

Did they re invent APRS?
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