Speed Sign Finder

1 Million people, 1 journey on 1 day a YEAR, that's ALL, I can do that.


Lets get 1 Million motorists, logging sign locations for 1 drive to work, 1 day a year, thats all it takes to keep the NSW speed zone maps up to date, at no cost to the tax payer :)

*Background*:
Most public (government) agencies are under resourced and the task of continuously maintaining spatial (map) data is given low priority. It is very expensive to send an employee out to survey the world, so it just isn't done. That is a good thing as the money (your tax dollars) is spent on better causes, fixing roads, building bridges etc.

Unfortunately this means that you, a member of the public LOSE OUT, as without good data, decisions as to where to put the bridge or which road to fix, are basically just guesstimates.

There is a win/win option. As you and I are already driving out and about with our sophisticated survey equipment, our smart phone, we can do the data capture as a side-effect of our normal day.

*The App: what it does*:
This app scans the road ahead as you drive (too/from work for example), once it detects a speed sign it logs its location, that's it,

You then have the *choice* to email the data as text so that it can be aggregated in a Google Fusion Table and made available to the community.


*All data is anonymous, if unsure you can include yourself in the email to,cc or bcc, give it a go.

There are lots of additions being added to this project (daily) if you want to join the Beta Testing please Join http://goo.gl/N7euw on Google+


For Best Results:
Mount the smartphone on your vehicle dash aim the camera to the passenger side and down so as to avoid the sky washing out the image. Try to get as many clear frames of the speed signs on the roadside.

Note: the App is dependant on the android camera settings, if you are having trouble try putting the android camera in "auto" mode from the camera app

IF YOU ENJOY THE APP *PLEASE* SEND IN THE DATA VIA THE "EMAIL DATA" MENU.

Change History:
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0.0.39
Lots of detection improvements
Added this What's new screen
Added Camera Setting optimisation
          Default Mode sets Camera to 
                          WHITE_BALANCE_AUTO
                          SCENE_MODE_AUTO
                          WHITE_BALANCE_AUTO
                          ISO_AUTO
          Experimental mods sets Camera to 
                          FOCUS_MODE_INFINITYn
                          ISO_HJR or Highest ison
Added debug display Verbosity in Settings

0.0.32
Added Spanish
Upgraded the Menus
Speed improvements

0.0.30
Major rebuild to Menu
Major improvement in detection
Improved "Alert on Green"
Added preferences/settings
Added a "Data Ready to Send" notification
Added Crash Feedback option
Added include option to include yourself as a BCC to data email
Added a Privacy Statement
Added "About Links"
Added an "Alert on Green" indicator on left of screen.
Added More data to diagnostic display 
Fixed Adjust threshold cancel, left display in Threshold mode

*0.0.28* (in Beta Join the tester on Google Plus)
Added Notification with reminder to email the data
Added alerts via TextToSpeech
Added Mute option.

Added a second seekbar for adjusting S as well as the original V adjustment (as in HSV colour)
Added a debug visualization (menu>debug) so I can see what is going on in low light.

Speed Improvements.

There are lots of additions being added to this project (daily) if you want to join the Beta Testing please Join http://goo.gl/N7euw on Google+

#OpenCV requires OpenCV Manager from Google Play! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.opencv.engine

#opensource at https://github.com/anthonykeane/SpeedSignFinder
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