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vehicle tracking and road mapping

Posted by johny_ on 11 March 2010 in English.

Hello!
I watched a video in www.ted.com and discovered this great project. Though some questions raised. Maybe somebody can help me on this one.

I am from a company that develops, installs and supports remote GPS vehicle tracking. There are few thousand vehicles on the roads that send their position every 7-20sec.
Currently we use Google maps for our mapping material, but sometimes map material is not satisfactory and there is nothing we can do to improve it.
Therefore I was thinking if it would be possible that we switch to OpenStreetMap data for our mapping material.
Also there is huge amounts of raw gps traces material that is being archived. I have to check agreement with vehicle owners but I think it would be possible to publish those traces without car names at least for some.
Is anyone doing similar project? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Janis