<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:11 AM, David Rysdam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@rysdam.org" target="_blank">david@rysdam.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Tom Buskey <<a href="mailto:tom@buskey.name">tom@buskey.name</a>> writes:<br>
> My car has something else and I can avoid whole roads which is nice.<br>
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</span>Another planned feature. In fact, this is the first time I've ever heard<br>
of any existing GPS/routing system that did this. Another one is "avoid<br>
area", such as "don't go within 100 miles of NYC".<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I used to be in the habit of always putting my route in so I'd know when I should arrive. With the garmin, I'd add way points along the way so I could force back roads, avoid intersections in busy areas w/o lights, etc. I can't do that w/ the car GPS but I can say avoid 495, avoid rt 3. I preferred the garmin way. It'd be nice to have both.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm not replying there, but I saw the Waze traffic mentions. Agreed<br>
about the data access being the problem there. It really seems like a<br>
lot of normal traffic information could just be downloaded and used<br>
offline. Basically it's a weighting function across spacetime rather<br>
than just space (as is usually the case). I want to experiment with this<br>
by having my routes timestamped and saved, then used as inputs to future<br>
routings in the same area.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Waze also wants user input about slowdowns, accidents, in route timing and other user reported info. You can't do that w/o data access.</div><div><br></div><div>FWIW - has anyone worked on TCP over text messages? If they can do it over carrier pigeons... </div></div><br></div></div>