>You need boots on the ground, so to speak, to see that new speed limit sign or the new lane paint.

It'll shock you to know that you can simply get this from governments, some even provide this in API form

dmd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It probably won't shock you to know that those sources of data can be months to even years delayed from what's actually out in the world.

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KaiserPro 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

no visual data, you need picture data for that. companies like NC tech do it for like $1m a city. or thereabouts.

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paganel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> or the new lane paint.

I'd be surprised if this is a thing outside the biggest US (and European, for that matter) cities, judging from Google StreetView there are lots of streets in US cities/towns with almost no paint lines at all.

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msm_ 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you mean in the API? I live in an European country and I don't think I ever saw an asphalt road without paint lines. This varies a lot between countries though.

	▲	ssl-3 9 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Does Italy count? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Google_M...
	▲	ThunderSizzle 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Many American roads don't have lines. Residential roads, parking lots, many business driveways have limited markings. Then there's roads with just the center line markers with no road should markings. Then there's a whole class of roads of lines over "demarked" old lines that weren't demarked well, or lines fading that should've been painted a long time ago. I'm surprised you've never seen a non-perfect road?
	▲	paganel 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Here in Bucharest there are quite a lot of big boulevards that do not have them, either because they haven’t been repainted over in a long time or because they laid new asphalt without bothering to repaint the lines (this happens a lot, unfortunately, and is very frustrating).