{"id":1785945,"date":"2018-07-16T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785945"},"modified":"2018-07-16T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T18:22:21","slug":"a-mobile-mapping-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/a-mobile-mapping-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mobile Mapping Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rerouting.<\/strong> Lifehacker talks about how to prevent mapping apps from rerouting you<\/a> on the fly, and lists some options. [R. E. Sieber<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Traffic.<\/strong> Traffic congestion is a key feature of mobile mapping, and predicting it involves looking at historical data. CityLab<\/em> reports<\/a> on a recent study<\/a> suggests that time-of-day electricity usage patterns can be used to predict traffic congestion patterns. A household that starts using power earlier in the morning gets up earlier and presumably will go to work earlier.) It’s another variable that can be put to use in traffic modelling.<\/p>\n

Trail difficulty.<\/strong> OpenStreetMap doesn’t differentiate between “walk-in-the-park” trails and mountaineering routes<\/a>, and that may have had something to do with hikers needing to be rescued from the side of a British Columbia mountain<\/a> recently. The hikers apparently used OSM on a mobile phone app, and in OSM trail difficulty is an optional tag. The wisdom of using OSM in safety-critical environments notwithstanding, this is something that OSM editors need to get on. [Ian Dees<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rerouting. Lifehacker talks about how to prevent mapping apps from rerouting you on the fly, and lists some options. [R. E. Sieber] Traffic. Traffic congestion is a key feature of mobile mapping, and predicting it… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,80],"tags":[85,522,386,219],"class_list":["post-1785945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","category-mobile","tag-driving-directions","tag-hiking","tag-openstreetmap","tag-traffic","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785149,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/traffic-congestion-mobile-apps-and-game-theory\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785945,"position":0},"title":"Traffic Congestion, Mobile Apps and Game Theory","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OTYHrozkazg There have been numerous complaints that mobile map apps have been dumping traffic from freeways onto nearby residential streets (previously). 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