Use OpenTraffic traffic speed data for car routing

[Hooloovoo]

I just came across OpenTraffic (free, global traffic speed data set linked to OpenStreetMap built with open source software):
http://opentraffic.io/
http://conveyal.com/blog/2015/06/08/launching-opentraffic/
and think it would be really powerful if this functionality could be implemented in OSMAnd. Traffic information is the reason that my wife prefers Waze over OSMAnd.

[vshcherb]

How open is it, is there any limitation that Mapbox will stop giving out the data or will start asking money for it? It could be just a FreeTraffic data, but that could be a temporary service from them.

Pure open traffic idea should explain how to setup your own server and maintain it, of course it could have privacy issues.

[Hooloovoo]

Their site says that they are forming as a nonprofit organisation, with founding partners the World Bank, Conveyal and Mapzen in addition to Mapbox. I can't easily see information on the licences for submitted data or whether they will guarantee that the full data set is downloadable etc, but looking at the blog post it is all quite new. The site suggests people email them with any questions, so maybe it is worth an OSMAnd developer dropping them a line?

[DaimonPl]

Well this could be "win-win" setup. Simply if OsmAnd user wants to use traffic data for routing he must at the same time allow to send hisvehicle speed data to opentraffic (of course if he's got local network internet connection).

I'm using other application (country-targeted) which uses its own servers for such routing - it works great

[Hedaja]

I wrote them an email about the license now. Waiting for reply.
I think this would be a great benefit for OsmAnd. I believe a lot of people expect to have live traffic data if they are using their smartphone for navigation.

[vshcherb]

We are also trying to reach them, to get more information about API

[Hedaja]

The Graphhopper project already made a collection of other free traffic data sources. https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection
Don't know if this might be helpful or if you already have seen this.

[thessy]

OpenTraffic in OsmAnd would be awesome. Are there any news about it?

[GaidamakUA]

We've tried contacting them, but get no response. It is seems like they are not reliable. Shame but this is unlikely to be implemented any time soon.

[liotier]

France offers free access to traffic events data in Datex format (page in French)

A number of local governments in Europe seem to offer such data but access to that seems administratively very fragmented - there is definitely room for an aggregator...

[bonanza123]

Maps.me now offers traffic layer, see also mapsme/omim#736. Maybe its possible that osmand uses the data from the same source?

[doronbehar]

Regarding the license, what is the purpose of these files found in their repositories?

• https://github.com/opentraffic/api/blob/dev/LICENSE.txt
• https://github.com/opentraffic/osmlr/blob/master/COPYING

[erdmark]

There is a project at trafficpixel.tk providing a traffic overlay for osmand and the possibility to add speed points directly with Osmand.

[ignaciolep]

Some news about OpenTraffic:

1. Open Traffic technical preview Issue317 #1: OSMLR segments: https://mapzen.com/blog/open-traffic-osmlr-technical-preview/
2. OSMLR traffic segments for the entire planet: https://mapzen.com/blog/osmlr-2nd-technical-preview/

[gloschtla]

Here you find a tutorial by Chris Lessley, how to manually overlay OsmAnd's car map with Google Maps that includes live traffic color codes. But unfortunately for this solution OsmAnd needs to download Google's map image files via (expensive) mobile Internet connection. Furthermore (in my case) the overlaying Google map was moved about 30 km northwards relative to the offline map, as you can see below.

[bam80]

Any progress? News?

[ignaciolep]

Any progress? News?

About Open Traffic, Mapzen released the platform and handed it to World Bank for operation. Code for all of the platform’s components is on GitHub, available under the LGPL license. https://mapzen.com/blog/open-traffic-release/

BTW, Mapzen will cease operations at the end of January 2018. https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/

[bam80]

@ignaciolep I meant progress in Osmand indeed.
BTW, MAPS.ME uses https://traffic.maps.me/ for traffic:
mapsme/omim#736 (comment)
Can we use it too?

[ADepic]

Any updates on this?
It is a killer feature, needed along with public transport navigation.
Both have APIs that osmand could easily impliment.

[ADepic]

I'm not sure if traffic.maps.me is allowed for us. Try asking on maps.me github page and read through their terms and conditions

[ADepic]

Seems like progress on this issue is dead.

Okay

[ADepic]

Close issue? open traffic seems dead, I tried contacting as well.