{"id":1787650,"date":"2019-08-22T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787650"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T20:14:30","slug":"tech-companies-ignore-ntsb-request-to-add-railway-crossings-to-their-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/tech-companies-ignore-ntsb-request-to-add-railway-crossings-to-their-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Companies Ignore NTSB Request to Add Railway Crossings to Their Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech companies have largely ignored a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board recommendation to add railway crossing data to their map apps, Politico<\/em> reports<\/a>. In 2016, after an accident in which a tired truck driver who used his mobile phone to navigate crashed into an Amtrak train at a level crossing, the NTSB issued a recommendation<\/a> asking mapping companies to incorporate at-grade railway crossing data from the Federal Railroad Administration\u2019s database of some 200,000 level crossings, so that their apps can warn drivers that a railway crossing is coming up.<\/p>\n

Nearly three years later, hardly any of them have implemented the recommendation, and to date only three have responded to the NTSB recommendation: Garmin said it has railway crossing data in its latest devices, TomTom said it has had such data for a decade; Google, for its part, worried that adding such data might overcrowd the map and distract its users. Other providers, including Apple, Here, MapQuest and Microsoft, did not respond to the NTSB. Meanwhile, UPS says its proprietary navigation system includes level crossings, and while OpenStreetMap doesn\u2019t use the FRA database, it has a level crossing tag<\/a> that\u2019s been used worldwide more than 730,000 times.<\/p>\n

More coverage: Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em><\/a>, The Verge<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech companies have largely ignored a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board recommendation to add railway crossing data to their map apps, Politico reports. 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