I love the flow of this and based on the existing inertia, I did some research of my own and think we can add a component of crowdsourcing and google earth into all this. Can we borrow some existing models and implement them locally? Here are but a few http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sitting-in-traffic.htm... http://www.gpsfortoday.com/car-tracking-google-cell-phones-and-real-time-tra... http://gislounge.com/crowdsourcing-traffic-and-roads/ We can combine both the webcams and google earth and see where it takes out. I have met some fabulous GIS techies like Luchiri and others. Who can take leadership on this? It's not as much the idea as who takes leadership, linux could be nowhere without Linus and the rest of the crew. My thoughts David On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Michuki Mwangi<michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
Everyone,
James Muendo wrote:
Riyaz,
Sounds like a challenge,though there is a pending traffic system that Stephen Ndungu(BTW these guy is sharp and has ideas that need to be executed);
Well we can start simple and see how it goes. If 30% folks on Skunkworks list could point their webcams outside their office windows and place the url on skunkworks blog/BB (put ip filters to limit folks from Kenyan IPs to access the webcams). If the worry is what if too many folks view one webcam - well we can setup icecast to stream from a central location and only a single stream comes from one webcam.
We could easily outdo KDNs traffic network and that will be cheap for everyone since we are keeping it local :).
But then .... how many are willing?
Cheers,
Mich
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