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RoadSpotters

Crowd-triggered open data solutions to spot, visualise and monitor road damages and hazards

VISION RoadSpotters is an active crowd-tagging community of citizens generating millions of structured open data on damages, hazards, and defects to increase road safety on a European level.

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FEATURES RoadSpotters comes with a handy reporting app, a harmonised open data hub and intuitive visualisation tools

TARGET GROUPS

RoadSpotters follows a multi-benefit approach providing multiple revenue streams and business opportunities besides its strong social, economic and environmental impacts for stakeholders.

  • Citizens are enforced to improve their living environment by adding new spots and could instantly track reported issues.
  • Public authorities are saving time and money getting instant alerts visualised on intuitive open map solutions.
  • Urban planners are provided with relevant information combined with an additional layer of open crash data to improve dangerous areas and spots.
  • Third parties and application providers are receiving harmonised data on a broad level to increase the value of services for their clients.

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OPEN DATA IN ITS DNA RoadSpotters faciliates a triple-approach on Open Data

RoadSpotters not only seeks to establish new structured open data catalogues for road safety issues but also will make use of available open data such as OpenStreetMaps, PublicData.eu's Register, DATA.GOV.UK Potholes Register and Road Safety Repositories that hold geo-localized data on car crashes and similar incidents.

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  2. UseRoadSpotters integrates with OpenStreetMaps, pothole registers and other repositories.
  3. HarmoniseA new standardised catalogue harmonises data on road damages and hazards.
  4. Generate Crowd tagging generates a comprehensive open data catalogue for European wide data.

IMPACTS RoadSpotters brings benefits for our economy, environment and society as a whole.