We found that if all travellers behave selfishly, and if we have a system that not only makes it relatively inexpensive to use a car, but also allows congestion to affect non-car users, collectively we all end up taking longer to get where we need to go – whether by car or not.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON for adoption as an official OGC Standard. It defines how to encode and share the movements of geographic features by using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has been using satellite imagery to measure vehicle mobility on the roads and at shopping centres during South Africa’s lockdown, a national measure intended to slow the spread of the Coronavirus outbreak. Mobility was measured against conditions prior to lockdown.
Carto is making its mapping platform available to public and private sector organisations fighting the coronavirus outbreak via its grants program.