ChosunTruck – Euro Truck Simulator 2 autonomous driving solution

Re:ChosunTruck – Euro Truck Simulator 2 autonomous driving s... by yellowapple on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:28AM (#13658879)

I'm surprised that - given the existence of OpenStreetMap - nobody's tried to make a global driving simulator. Real roads, real scale. Buildings are a potential issue (OSM includes the outlines, but I don't know about full 3D models), but it otherwise seems at least plausible (even if highly unlikely) to pull off reasonably well.

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Re:ChosunTruck – Euro Truck Simulator 2 autonomous driving s... by JonathonW on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:46PM (#13661943)

OSM doesn't capture road elevation-- driving around in a flat world isn't quite the same as the real world.

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Re:ChosunTruck – Euro Truck Simulator 2 autonomous driving s... by yellowapple on Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:15PM (#13663177)

My impression was that it can capture road elevation, but most OSM contributors don't. I know it supports capturing the elevation for specific points (as well as the heights of things like buildings), and I'm pretty sure OSM includes terrain elevation as well.

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Re:ChosunTruck – Euro Truck Simulator 2 autonomous driving s... by detritus on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:03PM (#13670783)

Well, it'd make a for a good starting point for a developer - they could then mangle, simplify and merge Ordnance Survey (UK) or national equivalent elevation data..

..and then, like with the bots that supposedly roamed No Man's Sky's development, ensuring no random variables came out with anything rude or inappopriate, make bots like that here to check the merged output isn't quirking too much :)

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