Foss navigation with traffic?

Is there a way to show traffic on Osmand+ or another foss app which includes navigating around traffic jams or calculates the rout based on traffic?

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noodlejetski@geddit.social · 7 pts · 3y (3 replies)

not really, because they'd have to constantly collect its users' location in order to do that.

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

There's nothing that stops a FOSS app from doing that, or pinging a server that checks Google maps periodically

noodlejetski@geddit.social · 6 pts · 3y

There's nothing that stops a FOSS app from doing that

I'm well aware there's no technological obstacle. many people choose FOSS maps over Google to have less of their data collected though, so I could imagine they'd object to such practice, which would make the feature less effective.

conciselyverbose@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

You'd have to trust whatever host, but if the actual server was handled by the right reputable organization, anonymizing information should be relatively easy (if and probably only if you had a sufficiently sized user base). You basically would just have chunk up the data when you send it, fuzz time on the order of a minute or five, and make sure it didn't have any ID attached to it in any public data sets.

With a smaller user base, you could maybe make deanonymization significantly less valuable/harmful by allowing users to set dead zones locally that they don't share data from. So maybe in a city you set 2 miles from your apartment and in a more urban area you set 5, and the same for your place of work or other areas that you consider potentially invasive to a bad actor. A small base would likely still allow your route to be correlated, but removing enough of the ends cuts the risk down a lot in theory.

It's something you'd have to stay cognizant of, but it might be able to be done in a privacy protecting way.

caos@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

"Magic Earth" is unfortunately not FOSS, but it is "one of the few navigation apps that do without advertising and tracking." (mobilsicher.de). It includes also "Crowd Sourced Traffic".

citizenserious@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3y

Thanks, yes I am currently using Magic Earth (: