alt Hacker NewsYeah I’m definitely not going to pay a subscription for a dashcam so that some company can profit off my data. This does however sound like it could be amazing if it benefited OSM instead. One of my biggest gripes with retail dashcams is that the hardware and software feels pretty universally cheap. I’d pay a premium for a good dashcam and I’d be totally ok with my data being used to improve OSM.
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I've been giving street data to Mapillary before they've been chewed up by Meta.
Now I go for Panoramax...with my phone stuck to the front window of my car or bike.
Some of it will go to improve OSM e.g. road widths, etc.
Yeah it's a huge waste to put that into one company's pocket instead of sharing it with OSM.
That reminds me, if anyone is in touch with the CoMaps folks... A feature to sync points and routes from my phone to my computer would be nifty. I don't record routes enough, and I often map places while I'm out without Wi-Fi.
> Yeah I’m definitely not going to pay a subscription for a dashcam so that some company can profit off my data.
A dashcam is continuously recording and collecting image data. You're not "doing" anything with that data, it's just there being recycled or thrown away.
So the argument is, essentially: "Fuck you, I'd rather nobody in the world benefit than someone make a penny off of it."
If you think about it, they should give the hardware away as a lease to Uber, lyft, taxi drivers and pay them per mile. They are likely going to go the most diverse routes than say you or I that drive to work, home, the grocery store, and the park every now and then.