The turf wars on data - can be a matter of life and death
summary
Prototype called The Safe Route ingests 40,000 accident points (Strada, four years of historical, coarse locations) and converts a Google Data Studio heatmap into geofenced polygons that feed a Heidelberg-style routing algorithm via the openrouteservice API and Vue/CyclOSM/Mapillary visuals, producing routes that avoid high-risk zones. It proves the approach works as a demo but exposes limits: data precision, lack of real-time feeds, and access restrictions from public providers and GDPR framing that keep private-sector detail out of practical use.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50Definition of turf war
- 1:55Why the safe route
- 3:15Data sharing
- 5:32The process
- 8:55Quality
- 9:44Heat map
- 10:17Collaborating
- 11:20Prototype
- 12:11Key takeaways
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