Geolocation in the mobile — a new way to search for witnesses of road incidents

You've discovered that your car was stolen and since the theft took place an undetermined length of time remains to contact the police and wait?

Would it not be better to find witnesses? Among the thousands or millions of drivers in your town — surely there were those who accidentally filmed the moment of theft on video or could follow the stolen car. The video these people would help to find the car - but how to contact them?

Let's see how in the 21st century geospatial and information technologies can help drivers to find witnesses of road incidents to:

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• to Prove innocence in an accident,
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• to Identify the hit-and-run accident
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• to Monitor for stolen vehicles and more

As you might guess, we will talk about the idea to build a social search service witnesses, which will allow victims to communicate with unfamiliar drivers on the basis of information on displacements. To work to quickly to the account of the DVR has not been rubbed loopback'ohms. About how it works, would like to talk about in this article.

At the moment the problem of finding witnesses to the accident and other incidents solved very inefficiently. The victim places an ad on specialized forums and social networks and expects that the witness will respond to his call for help.

Chance to find a witness in this case depends on the number of drivers regularly viewing news of an accident or specialized forums. The probability of success here is extremely small because, first, not every driver takes the time to view the news of the accident every day, and secondly, the driver might not realize what he witnessed.

The result precious time is lost, the video erased and even if the witness is found, it will be useless.

My idea is to save time of those drivers who are willing to help if they anonymously publish their movement routes and provide an opportunity to communicate with them.
No need to read the news. The victim himself will contact you, even if you have not noticed the incident, but was able to record it on your DVR.

Working service:

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1. is the Driver ready to help (sharing the record to your DVR) using the mobile application records the position and time their movements and anonymously publish them to shared database.

the Victim visits the web portal, finds the route search by time and place, sends a message to the owner of the route, not knowing his name and other contact information. the

2. the Message appears in the mobile app the driver.

Now the driver can copy the video to the desired time of travel and at least it will not be lost.



The project will attract those who regularly scans the news about the accident and helping the victims as well as those who are willing to help but don't have time to search for ads of those who need help.

In General, it focuses on those who gratuitously helps others drivers. This is exactly the motivation which should be based social service.

The success of this project depends on number of people, recording their routes, so the actual question is — will the additional incentives to attract more participants?

As an additional incentive you can use

a reward to the witness for the video. the

1. Limitation of opportunities to look for witnesses for those who are not involved in the project.

IMHO such incentives are not fundamental for the service, but unable to attract additional users who are willing to share your video.
I won't overload the article with other parts. If you have interest, we will continue the theme of motivational and technical components of such a project.

I would be glad if You share your opinion in the section of the survey, and also suggest a new motivation for users to review.

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru