blindsquare - how to benefit open and crowd sourced geodata

How to benefit open and crowdsourced

geodata?

Ilkka Pirttimaa

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GPS

AR

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Observation:

Blind find difficulties accessing public transport

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Problem:

How to deliver information?

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Solution:

Augemented Reality with Speech synthesis

(on device!)

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Solution:

Augemented Reality with Speech synthesis

(on device!)

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Problem 2:

Where to get the data?

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Public Transportation API’s :

There are just too many of them

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(THINK BIG)

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Solution :

Using POI’s and Street info

that are crowdsourced

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Free APIFree servers

One of the largest POI databaseWell categorized

Provides “local recommendations”License is quite OK

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StreetsCrossings

License is OK

Geonames.org provides services with SLA(with nice support)

OpenStreetMap

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Demo - Walking in NY

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Demo - Walking in NY

1) Your location (reverse geocoding)

2) Nearest crossing (OSM)

3) FourSquare check-in4) Place near me (distance + direction)

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Demo - Car drive in Helsinki

http://youtu.be/hqH7t9jlBGY

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Some Facts

12 EUR 16 USD7 languages

4 months >30 countries

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What next?

More languagesOSM - Traffic lightsOSM - Entrances

Saved routesCity Guides

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