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Apple to Introduce Search Ads in Maps as Services Revenue Grows
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We just need a reliable way to actually get traffic data that doesn't involve either! Believe it or not Comaps or Organic maps works really well! It takes an extra min or two to route your drive if you need to funnel your desired route in a certain direction, but it's 100% functional
Traffic data is an intractable problem for a privacy preserving open source app, would have to be done at the government level
Is there any technical reason it cannot be done in a privacy respecting manner? It should be possible to collect a location and speed from a phone with absolutely no other data attached from the device and store this in a database. This would provide a database of anonymous traffic density in a state of flux. You cannot see which phone is which data point, where it is coming from or where it is going to.
The only real reason I can see this is not done is surveillance capitalism.
I love organic maps! I just wish searching for businesses was easier :( still need to keep Apple Maps installed on the side because of this.