Real Time Traffic in Osmand

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Marcin Górzyński

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Jun 14, 2016, 5:04:36 AM6/14/16
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Hi,

The support for Real-Time Traffic is getting more and more important in recent years. It makes navigation application usable daily when traveling to known locations. Osmand at the moment is missing this crucial feature. Could you shed some light on this topic?

 

1.       Are there any third party plugins that add Real-Time Traffic to OsmAnd?

2.       Are you working on adding Real-Time Traffic for OsmAnd?

3.       Do you consider adding Real-Time Traffic support to OsmAnd in the future?


brev...@gmail.com

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Jun 14, 2016, 9:15:28 AM6/14/16
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I think there was a tentative partnership with OpenTraffic (http://opentraffic.io/), but it did not produce anything. I can't remember the reasons, though.

Official french highways traffic info is available here :

http://diffusion-numerique.info-routiere.gouv.fr/toutes-les-dir-a10.html#sommaire_15 (real-time traffic)

http://diffusion-numerique.info-routiere.gouv.fr/acces-aux-donnees-evenementielles-datex-2-r13.html (road events : construction sites, accidents, etc.)

Access requires subscribtion ; re-use is allowed with conditions (notabily data attribution to "Bison Futé").

Paul Johnson

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Jun 14, 2016, 5:29:37 PM6/14/16
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:15 AM, <brev...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think there was a tentative partnership with OpenTraffic (http://opentraffic.io/), but it did not produce anything. I can't remember the reasons, though.

Is OpenTraffic even active still?

V S

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Jun 14, 2016, 7:03:32 PM6/14/16
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Most of the real time traffic information is paid and quite expensive to get it.
Even links above provide only raster information.

Poutnik

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Jun 15, 2016, 12:43:59 AM6/15/16
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Not the same, definitely not real time,
but BRouter uses interesting experimental idea
for traffic static estimation, preprocessed in its rd5 files.

It is based on total length of highway=residental
within some distance from the road of interest.

It uses pseudotag estimated_traffic_class=1..7,
differentiated by multiples of 2 of the above total length.

More info in links, or at BRouter author
https://github.com/abrensch/brouter

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/osm-android-bikerouting
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/osm-android-bikerouting>

Dne 15/06/2016 v 01:03 V S napsal(a):
> Most of the real time traffic information is paid and quite expensive
> to get it.
> Even links above provide only raster information.

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Poutnik

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Jun 15, 2016, 1:44:30 AM6/15/16
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It is then used for the traffic aware road bike routing profile
for extra penalization of mainroad network with estimated significant
traffic.

the info deployment is AFAIK currently applied
only for several grid files of Western Europe,
like Germany or Czech Republic ( like E15 N45 )

Dne 15/06/2016 v 06:43 Poutnik napsal(a):
> It is based on total length of highway=residental
> within some distance from the road of interest.
>
> It uses pseudotag estimated_traffic_class=1..7,
> differentiated by multiples of 2 of the above total length.
>
> .....

Paul Johnson

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Jun 15, 2016, 2:34:49 AM6/15/16
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:03 PM, V S <victor....@gmail.com> wrote:
Most of the real time traffic information is paid and quite expensive to get it.
Even links above provide only raster information.

What about using traffic trends based on planet.gpx? 

Richard Z.

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Jun 17, 2016, 7:54:57 AM6/17/16
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 04:03:32PM -0700, V S wrote:
> Most of the real time traffic information is paid and quite expensive to
> get it.
> Even links above provide only raster information.

in many countries free traffic alerts are transmitted RDF coded through
FM radio.
It seems like getting at the RDF code in Android is a major pain although
not impossible (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=531600)

Richard

Seth Weber

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Nov 15, 2023, 10:29:26 PM11/15/23
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Dang, sad to see so many years go by with no proposed alternative. I badly want to switch fully to Osmand but the lack of live traffic and user reports is pretty critical to me.

Google unfortunately has a leg-up here with their massive data surveillance... if only we had stronger open-source competition in this space.

Tom Crocker

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Nov 16, 2023, 2:30:28 AM11/16/23
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On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 7:54:57 AM UTC-4 Richard Z. wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 04:03:32PM -0700, V S wrote:
in many countries free traffic alerts are transmitted RDF coded through
FM radio.
It seems like getting at the RDF code in Android is a major pain although
not impossible (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=531600)

Richard
Not sure if this is what you're meaning but my understanding of RDS traffic announcement is basically a flag for when a radio station is reading a traffic report so the radio can switch to that station temporarily.

Tom Crocker

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Nov 16, 2023, 3:13:25 AM11/16/23
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2023, 07:30 Tom Crocker, <tomcroc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure if this is what you're meaning but my understanding of RDS traffic announcement is basically a flag for when a radio station is reading a traffic report so the radio can switch to that station temporarily.
Oh yes, there's also Traffic Message Channel [1] although it seems that's often commercial/encrypted.

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Nov 28, 2023, 7:03:16 PM11/28/23
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