Hi S,
I thought you might find this interesting regarding our discussion:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274
Regards
Le 21.08.2016 14:24, S Moonesamy a écrit :
> Hi Martin,
> At 14:19 20-08-2016, martin_at_navacelle.net wrote:
>
>> Maybe the path could be:
>>
>> 1. User sends his current location using only words: street number and name, point of interest (tabagie, jumbo, fill in, ... )
>> 2. Service geocodes location and finds a list of nearest restaurants
>> 3. Service sends to user a list of places to eat and directions
>>
>> Implies to first geolocate every snack / restaurant / boutique / road, but this can be crowd sourced by the shops so that they can reach more clients by being in a database.
>>
>> This way no realtime lowfi GPS on the smartphone is needed. Works even during cyclone. Can also be sms only.
>>
>> Eventually User sends a picture of his surroudings so that machine learning creates a street view.
>>
>> Is your idea to help people find restaurants nearby ?
>
> I was evaluating the functionality of a smartphone. I mentioned restaurants as it was part of one of the tests which I carried out. In doing so, I noticed that the results were of poor quality.
>
> Thanks for suggesting a path. I prefer not to do (1) as some of that information may be missing or it may be unstructured. Crowdsourcing has not worked on the island. It is unlikely that I would be able to do anything about that. I have done some research about (1) previously; it was for a different purpose. Creating a street view is an interesting idea. I am taking into account the local context; I estimate that it would take several years to do that.
>
> The idea is about making the phone useful. The interesting part is that I am unable to do that at the moment. :-)
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
Received on Fri Aug 26 2016 - 13:33:31 PST