Traffic

[ItsX12]

I would like a feature to be able to see traffic on different roads.

[GLLM]

I'd love this, but I'm not sure there are currently reliable traffic source than are free and can be used for FOSS projects.
Is there any ?

[ItsX12]

I know there is a project called OpenTraffic (https://github.com/opentraffic) I don't know if this could be of use.

[dikkechill]

I really like to see this feature as well, as it might bring organicmaps towards the feature level of google maps for routing.
And hence make it a real alternative.

The graphhopper project has a nice curated list of public traffic sources:

• https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection/blob/master/README.md
• https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2015/04/08/visualize-and-handle-traffic-information-with-graphhopper-in-real-time-for-cologne-germany-koln/

The issue I see is that standards differ per region/country and importing and maintaining this would be cumbersome.
Potentially something like opentraffic.io (https://github.com/opentraffic) could help standardize things, but not sure how active this project still is.

Another alternative is to integrate one or more paid services, where organicmaps users could sign up themselves.

• https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data/ (seems to be enterprise only)
• https://distancematrix.ai/product

Some other ideas:

• Estimate default values for roads / times, see a discussion on Predicting road traffic Universite-Gustave-Eiffel/NoiseModelling#303
• Provide an API within OrganicMaps for people to develop their own traffic plugins (allowing the community to develop their own regional/country imports based on demand, making maintenance easier)
• Team up with other projects who have similar requirements, e.g. OSMAnd (Possibility of avoiding traffic jam? osmandapp/OsmAnd#6878)
• Check how other OSM based apps do it, e.g. MagicEarth (https://www.magicearth.com/feature-availablity/)

[biodranik]

Does real-time traffic still work in MapsMe? Opentraffic project looks dead, unfortunately.

We are looking for the easiest and simplest way to solve this issue. If users could pay for the traffic info directly to the provider, it would be great.

[citizenunique]

Real-time traffic is still available in Maps.me 10.2.3.0, which I'm still using for this reason. It works great.
Since this is not available anymore in the current Maps.me version, this could be a killer feature if available in Organic Maps.

[TheAdventurer64]

How did MAPS.ME do real time traffic?

[biodranik]

They made a business deal with some proprietary traffic provider.

[citizenunique]

This is how it looked like in the old version:

[Nosnahc]

Magic Earth has a traffic service that looks open source
https://www.magicearth.com/crowd-sourced-traffic/

[biodranik]

Crowd-sourced means that they collect it from their users. It doesn't mean that it's open-source (the source code is available to everyone).

[Nosnahc]

My bad

[b3n63r]

A basic traffic feature would be very useful, like not routing into scheduled closed roads due to construction. I have closed road in my town and it is marked highway=construction in OSM, but organic maps doesn't care.

This is the only thing keeping me from using organic maps more often for car navigation.

[Misalf-git]

Seems to work here.
I just tryed to get routed through a road tagged with both highway=construction and construction=residential but Organic Maps correctly sent me on a detour, avoiding the road under construction.

Maybe you want to open an issue with coords and other related info.

[b3n63r]

It may be the used OSM version is per 21th of January (if I recall it correctly) and the change to construction is per 15th of February. Is this possible?

[biodranik]

If the edit in osm was done AFTER we generated maps, then of course routing won't know about it.

[Benger85]

What about the good old TMC? The data is produced by public organisations in many countries and it seems that it is now available via internet, so there should be a way to use it in OrganicMaps for traffic: https://tisa.org/technologies/tpeg/

[biodranik]

Are there any APIs to get this information for all supported countries?

[Benger85]

I am not an expert. I couldn't find any API but this https://tisa.org/tpeg-standards-and-recommended-use/

Looks like most of the documents in the webshop are free. I have no idea what you might be interested in, but hopefully it will help.

[dikkechill]

TPEG seems mainly used for premium (paid) services, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPEG.
E.g. TomTom provides it's HD traffic data in this format for carmakers and manufacturers (https://www.tomtom.com/products/real-time-traffic/). TomTom also offers it in OpenLR (http://www.openlr.org/).
Additionally they offer data in Datex II and protobuf (https://developer.tomtom.com/intermediate-traffic-service/documentation/product-information/introduction)

[dikkechill]

One alternative mentioned in #1160 is TraFF (https://gitlab.com/traffxml)
Benefit is that the project is open source and uses public (free) data. It provides a number of implementations (TMC and Datex II to TraFF, XML server for data feed subscriptions, example implementations). Impressive for a one person project and it seems easily extendable.
Drawback is that there is no infrastructure running for it yet and many countries are not covered yet. At the moment it's also a one person project.