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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by Piskvorrr on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:38PM (#11848592)
Sign still required for those w/o Waze, but you bring up a fair point: not all municipalities are willing to open their data. Having a countrywide open database - updated by the municipalities directly, not crowdsourced like OSM - would help with many things, not just routing.
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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by justin66 on Monday June 06, 2016 @02:08PM (#11848877)
At the municipal level, plenty of governments are still using papyrus or cuneiform tablets. Not going to happen.
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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by mikeash on Monday June 06, 2016 @02:09PM (#11848889)
Sounds like an opportunity for a disruptive startup deploying the latest in OCR (Optical Cuneiform Recognition) technology.
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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by justin66 on Monday June 06, 2016 @02:57PM (#11849311)
I have nothing but pity for the startup that tries to give that stuff away, and train the users on it...
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