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They are doing it with the standard WIFI receiver. Currently they are sending the Wireshark dumps to a backend for processing.

According to their presentation they are working on a rust firmware to do everything on the board.

https://cartes.app. Based on OSM of course, but OSM is just a geographical database, with lots of incomplete UIs built on top by the community. Cartes is one of them, we're trying to make it complete and modern :)

> What is concerning is that vehicles appear to broadcast a MAC address.

Somewhat related: 'Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you': https://networks.imdea.org/your-cars-tire-sensors-could-be-u...

Reading the translation of the talk, public transport vehicles have a persistent MAC but for private cars the MAC address changes every 15 minutes.

What about the traffic lights on the map do they also have transmitters?

This should be a top level comment as it has a ton of useful info and can be voted to the top.

Did they re invent APRS?

Happy to see this popping up here, I watched the Linux Tage talk last week. The demo just kept getting better and better, to a point where the audience just interruptively cheers and claps away. I know nothing about the contents, but this warmed my heart. True hacker project!

Is there a link to the hardware they mention in the description?

Pastebin here containing AI-generated English translation, LGTM: https://pastebin.com/fK5Atwzg

Will be interesting to see how it fares when it does come to the US. It seems like there are some cars that already have the tech installed. But the US is allegedly more interested in the cellular version, which I am guessing is not as easy to pick up with a simple receiver?

My gut feeling is that this seems like one of those things likely to face a lot of backlash when it becomes widely known.

You still wouldn't have nearly as many dollars if you subtracted the times those people were correct in that assumption. Personally I assumed the site would be global. It doesn't have any info though, so I rely on finding out somewhere else I guess.

It seems pretty weird to use all English words in the domain for a service that offers no English translations and operates in no English speaking countries.

Is expecting something to work in the US the same as expecting it to be US-centric?

Conversely, if I had a penny for every time someone complained about Americans... ;-)

I did scroll across to the UK and was disappointed that there's none for here.

But I'll probably add my own receiver soon!

This is an American site to be fair. Mapbox is also an American company.

It does have an English name, so why the surprise?

OpenStreetMaps works in the US and much of the rest of the world.

It's entirely reasonable to expect that a project with an extremely similar name would also work in most of the world, which just happens to include the USA.

I mean I don’t anyone thought this was in the US since the UI is not in English. Maybe it’s more of, this neat, wish we had it here?

The night bus service only runs the nights "before" Saturday and Sunday[1]. It's a small university city with 300k population (600k greater metropolitan area).

[1] https://www.verbundlinie.at/en/customer-service/arriving-in-...