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by psadri 590 days ago
I’m surprised they can’t flag these misclassified roads by tracking traffic flow through them. A bad road should exhibit little traffic (or even more reroutes).
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Just simple neglect. Not enough revenue from the region to warrant operation and engineering time.
Both good and bad roads in remote areas will likely appear to have zero traffic flow data as there is no cell phone coverage.
It doesn't need to be all or nothing. The traffic flow algo can ignore regions with known zero cell coverage. Perhaps we can fill the gaps with inertial navigation if there is at least some traffic.