Predictive Mobile Navigation - Reloaded
Back in 2008 I touched on the concept of two-way personal navigation systems . Most navigation devices / applications today are still one - way. They receive GPS signals from satellites, and based on that compute the current location, rendering it based on locally stored map data. usually the story ends at this point. Now consider what happens when all these millions GPS receivers can report their whereabouts on-line, real-time, to some servers in the Cloud. And calm down please you who cry "privacy violation" now. It is not about you personally. It is about statistics of the crowds. Just quantitative data. I do not care where exactly or how fast you drive. But knowing where and how fast how many people are moving (or standing still) means a lot. Simply means real time traffic data. Of course we have had such systems for years now. Variants of the TMC ( Traffic Message Channel , based on FM radio broadcast technology) are in service world-wide. But the are neither accurate, n...