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Has anything been said about an open protocol for inter-car communication? What about sharing point cloud data?

I have a bad feeling that Google is going to keep everything sealed in Google Maps. The industry would benefit from sharing all of their data with OpenStreetMap.




Has anything been said about an open protocol for inter-car communication?

Yes: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/03/us-autos-technolog...

But I don't think it's for mapping, just safety.


A lot of companies are working on WAVE/DSRC. Here's a demo from Volvo: http://youtu.be/tasa3D1vVTc

And yes the safety applications like emergency brake, intersection collision warning, or curve speed warning etc., have high priority but other Applications like mapping are also possible. I think current mapping applications use road side infrastructures (also through DSRC) but I guess you could share traffic information (Waze?) using inter-vehicle communication.

Here's an technical paper if anybody is interested: http://secs.oakland.edu/~gpcorser/vanet-kenny-DSRC.pdf


> The industry would benefit from sharing all of their data with OpenStreetMap.

What is the barrier to entry for an open platform for people to submit this same data to OpenStreetMap. Precise Positioning + GoPros + data processing on the backend.


All of those things? Plus the new StreetView cars are running LIDAR as well.

Major projects like this have a ton of hardware limitations.




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