Where is the data?
Will full dumps be made available under a permissive license or will we have to hope that "free" and "open" mean "we have an API and might serve you something if we feel like it" as it too often does?
Will full dumps be made available under a permissive license or will we have to hope that "free" and "open" mean "we have an API and might serve you something if we feel like it" as it too often does?
And wrt anon data versus specific trip data - that is anonymized when the trips are uploaded to the system. There will be no way to identify specific trips with the tool.
There is no way to 100% anonymise trips. Some will be deidentified.
After all, if a GPS trace starts at my home and ends at my work, that's going to be pretty easy to de-anonymise.
OSM is full of GPS traces volunteered from thousands or people. The NYC taxi data set is not that different and includes exactly the data you describe.
I very much find the taxi data a inconsiderate breach of people's privacy as I doubt they were aware that this data might become available. But I consider volunteered detailed trace data perfectly fine and actually necessary for a open platform as you cannot reproduce results otherwise.