Because of the GDPR, Google offers a download of all collected data about you. When you have your location history enabled, this should be part of it. If that’s in a useful data format to parse, one could program this with the actual data of one’s movement
That’s cool but a pretty difficult way to regularly update the fog…
I had an idea where I would walk in a radius of few kilometers and walk on every street, etc. I wonder how long would it take, lol.
Someone make an app for that :P
There you go (not mine): http://www.everystreetchallenge.com/ or https://citystrides.com/
It’s not exactly the same, but I can vouch for StreetComplete being an incredibly good/similar game. You walk around the real world, and the app points out missing data in OpenStreetMap that you can fill in easily. You get the dopamine of a number going up, help dethrone proprietary map dominamce, and get some good excercise in in the process.
Is the map data federated?
It’s a central server i believe.
Well, it’s dumb data, so we don’t speak of federation (which happens between services), but basically yes.
Anyone can download the data and the TL;DR for your right to using the data is:
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors.
As a result, there are also many servers which mirror the data, i.e. provide a separate copy you can download, which is effectively like federation.
Uhhh this is fun!
