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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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