Having read no further than the headline, I really wanted this article to be about on-demand piggyback rides.
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#22And I do wonder why google maps with much more data hasn't done this...
Google makes driving time estimates in advance available to consumers through Google Maps. I use it all the time when planning events around rush hour.
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#23This is cool.
NYC already releases this information for taxis. It might even include Uber rides since they all have TLC plates, though I'm not sure.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/trip_record_data.shtm...
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#24From the FAQ:
> What are the licensing terms?
> Movement makes all insights available under the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial license.
Now, that's pretty interesting.
I wonder if we'll have API level access in a way that we can build tools on this data.
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#25Hope this is as fantastic as this sounds. Many cities are starting to make this data publicly available, and the potential impact to urban planning, traffic reduction, parking and more is enormous. That said, what's Uber's commercial angle? Licensing fees?
"Movement makes all insights available under the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial license."
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#26And I do wonder why google maps with much more data hasn't done this...
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#27How does Uber anonymize the data? Does it only use subset of a trip? If you can see where and when a trip started or finished, it's definitely not anonymous enough.
Yeah one scenario I was thinking of was the case of a rural home that's isolated from other buildings. It's plainly obvious that any data coming to and from that building is the occupants. There probably has to be some threshold of users (say, > 100 users taking a route) before it's exposed through this service.
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#28Hope this is as fantastic as this sounds. Many cities are starting to make this data publicly available, and the potential impact to urban planning, traffic reduction, parking and more is enormous. That said, what's Uber's commercial angle? Licensing fees? "Movement makes all insights available under the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial license."
Making friends. Uber is quite aware that their reputation within cities hasn't been the best. Internally, there is a loose federation of people who genuinely want to improve cities, and people who recognize the business value in not continuing to piss cities off.
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#29This won't help in Belgium, where Trucks need to pay "road taxes" and have a device installed for that. They can also get the data for tracking vehicles and they won't need Uber. Good idea though, but not applicable everywhere
This is focused on urban traffic. That may be totally different from truck traffic, which avoids (or even isn't allowed in) urban areas.
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#30How does Uber anonymize the data? Does it only use subset of a trip? If you can see where and when a trip started or finished, it's definitely not anonymous enough.
Watch the video again--geographic aggregation. Summary stats from geo-to-geo.
EDIT: I think in the video they showed census tracts, which is one of many geographic units they could choose from.