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Once Waze integrates that law into their dataset the problem is solved. No sign required.

I suppose they can't crowdsource that information or people would lie.

There must be a system for getting traffic information from municipalities to the road databases. Apple Maps told me there was no way to drive home a couple days ago, on examination the street in front of my house was marked as closed for the day, they were paving. That is essentially a zero traffic street in a grid area but bisected by rail road tracks without a crossing, so no one uses it except the people who live on it.



Sign still required for those w/o Waze, but you bring up a fair point: not all municipalities are willing to open their data. Having a countrywide open database - updated by the municipalities directly, not crowdsourced like OSM - would help with many things, not just routing.


At the municipal level, plenty of governments are still using papyrus or cuneiform tablets. Not going to happen.


Sounds like an opportunity for a disruptive startup deploying the latest in OCR (Optical Cuneiform Recognition) technology.


I have nothing but pity for the startup that tries to give that stuff away, and train the users on it...




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