As far as I know, traffic data is gathered via spying on users—Google Maps and similar apps sending device location to a central cloud service. Maybe somebody could provably anonymize the data somehow to make an alternative service for the open competitors to use.
There are Maps alternatives. For instance, Organic maps or the fork CoMaps. Not nearly as good UX as Google Maps… and zero traffic data available… but the upside is they work entirely offline.
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Anomalous scenarios like a giant flashing school bus? :D
With Teslas, Self Driving isn’t even safer in pristine road conditions.
If they even continue paying federal taxes…
I went down a very similar path with my constantly bombarded Gitea server… iterating from IP blocking to Traefik rate limiting to finally settling on the nuclear option of Anubis. It’s so worth it.
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/84