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Re:Google Maps Hacks by sixothree on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:37AM (#22217084)
The device itself should be able to discern the mode of transportation, no?
Re:Google Maps Hacks by hocuspocus on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:53AM (#22217163)
Indeed, but carriers don't get data from the device's sensors, so they need to be a little smart to properly recognize the mode of transportation.

It's easier with historical data since you know the full trip, but even real-time should be doable.

Re:Google Maps Hacks by withinboredom on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:56AM (#22217862)
This should be simple if there’s a beacon or Wifi on the train. Train goers will have that beacon in range on each location update while car goers will not (or may briefly if in-range of the train)
Re:Google Maps Hacks by fastball on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:40AM (#22217095)
Pretty easy to train some ML network to differentiate between transport modes, assuming the device has a accelerometer / gyroscope / whatever.
Re:Google Maps Hacks by prashnts on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:48AM (#22217137)
Not really that easy with just IMU sensors, I’d assume ?

I did one project in school (albeit a simple SVM based model) to classify walking vs running (and so on) and ambiguity was still there. Stationary vs. Walking was easy to draw a hyper plane in between, not Running.

I still find it a difficult problem to get into, after 5 years. Perhaps ANN models might work better? Although my heart is still at Hidden MM states...

Re:Google Maps Hacks by brian_herman on Sunday February 02, 2020 @10:17AM (#22217262)
Do you have the code for your classification project? It would be great to see it on github or something.
Re:Google Maps Hacks by prashnts on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:14AM (#22217602)
I have it, not only the code but labelled dataset I created with an arduino, first, and then iPhone. It’s been a private repository forever, but thanks! I’ll make it public and Edit post the link down here.

(Its not pretty though...)

Edit: https://github.com/prashnts/MPU-9250

I have proper project reports I’d submitted somewhere for sure, as well. I’ll add it there in repo. I never bothered earlier.

Edit 2: this was the paper i finally submitted at school.

https://github.com/prashnts/MPU-9250/blob/master/Docs/submit...

Re:Google Maps Hacks by payasr on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:38PM (#22219965)
I enjoyed reading that, thank you!
Re:Google Maps Hacks by prashnts on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:44PM (#22220284)
Thanks! To be more honest, this paper had a "constraint" against using FFT, simply because I didn't really know how it worked then...