Awaaz is an open-source, self-hostable traffic incident reporting and publishing platform for India.
Every day, Indian drivers witness accidents, road floods, police nakas, highway blockages, and broken diversions. Some post on Twitter. Some forward on WhatsApp. Most just drive through it. None of this information reaches the navigation app of the next driver heading into the same road.
Waze solves this, but Waze is owned by Google. Every incident an Indian driver reports flows into Google's servers and stays there. No open-source navigation app, no indie routing project, no government emergency system can access that data. The pipe is closed.
Awaaz opens the pipe.
It has two parts:
1. The Reporting Platform — A clean web app where civilians, traffic police, and highway authorities can submit geo-tagged road incidents: accidents, flooding, road closures, construction, hazards. Incidents appear live on a MapLibre-powered map (zero Google dependency). Reports can be confirmed by other users, and auto-expire when no longer relevant.
2. The Open Feed — Every submitted incident is published as a structured CIFS feed (Closure and Incident Feed Specification which is Waze's own open standard for describing road incidents). City-level and state-level feeds are available at public URLs. Any navigation app, routing engine, or alerting service can subscribe to these feeds and consume live Indian road incident data, for free, forever, without asking Google's permission.
To prove the feed works end-to-end, we will build a minimal OsmAND plugin that subscribes to an Awaaz feed and overlays incident markers during navigation.
Stack: Django + PostGIS · MapLibre GL JS · CIFS XML · OsmAND Plugin SDK (Java) License: AGPL-3.0 No proprietary APIs. Fully self-hostable. Built for India.
Inspired by Mr. Thejesh GN's idea in https://forum.fossunited.org/t/problem-statements-and-ideas-fosshack-2026/7186/2