This would allow you to report things on the map like dead skunks, cannabis retailers, or cattle trucks so folks have a chance to roll up their windows, switch their AC to recirculation mode (this does actually help mitigate road smells quite a bit) or divert around it.
-- 21 Quest, May 28 2024

Farmland would be permanantly brown.
-- doctorremulac3, May 28 2024


Do smartphones nowadays not already come with smell sensors? Then the results could be automatically scraped and fed back to the server
-- pocmloc, May 29 2024


No, that's why dogs don't use them.
-- pertinax, May 29 2024


This should show nice smells too. I grew up near a large coffee-roasting and grinding place, which often smelt amazing over an area of several nearby streets. I now live near a brewery which gives a large area of town a delicious malty aroma on days when they're brewing.
-- hippo, May 29 2024


I like that. Same with bakeries (heh), pine forests, etc.
-- 21 Quest, May 29 2024


[hippo], I get that from Stone here in Escondido - what's your brewery?

This should go further than allowing inputs - there should be updates - "There is an older vehicle whose engine is burning oil five minutes ahead of you".
-- normzone, May 29 2024


Yes! Like the cattle truck!
-- 21 Quest, May 29 2024


If you left your phone in your back pocket all day it would think the entire city had been hit by a mild biological weapon.
-- RayfordSteele, May 30 2024


Let me introduce you to the odours of Chilliwack BC.
The sound of silage.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 30 2024


You have no idea, Rayford. I'm a cabbie!
-- 21 Quest, May 30 2024



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