They built their own circuit board but the core module that does the 802.11p is just a ESP32-C5

That's one way to get rid of our (US) pennies now that they're useless!

> Personally I assumed the site would be global

The only reason you would assume a site would be global is if your definition of "global" is "works in the US" & you never bother to check for support of other countries. I live in the anglosphere outside of the US & I encounter more than enough US-only web projects for that not be to a default assumption I hold.

Most sites are not global - it's very odd to assume they would be.

The Germans and Danes and Swedes and Norwegians I see on the Internet developing and publishing software often have a better grasp of the English language than many born in the USA Americans.

The map is based on international standards and technically it does not restrict locations to German speaking countries.

The authors of this project also shared that they intend on publishing more around this project. This seems to be mostly an early demo that was intended for the live event.

I guess we only find out if some people order those chips and check if there is some data. From my understanding the idea is the same like maps showing air planes or ships (for ships it’s AIS). So without volunteers/pioneers who participate we won’t know. It seems like traffic lights and trams also can send data.

That still doesn't seem very private.

As discussed in the video they are not resetting the packet sequence number though, making it easy to match them with the other data transmitted.

Yes, they also have transmitters. The traffic lights send out MAPEM and SPATEM messages. They describe the layout of the lanes at the intersection as well as the red/green phase timings of the signal.

In Graz, the city where the authors live, there are 165 of such signals planned.

> It's a small university city with 300k population

Made me smile, I'm from outside a city we used to call "big city" when I was growing up, it had ~110K population and is the 9th largest in the country or something :P Anyways, that city still has night service, so not sure why a city with three times the population wouldn't, especially if it's a university city.

That looks pretty cool - sorry to have a complaint immediately:

When opening the map on Firefox/Linux zooming to like a France-size view and then not doing anything, the view keeps scrolling up and down relatively slowly, but very annoyingly.

Zooming all the way out, it looks like the globe is jiggling back and forth ever so slightly, but continually.

I've recently seen this happen on another mapping application ( cannot remember which one) so it's probably in down the stack somewhere in a library you are using.