The idea is worthy, I hope the team will be able to bring it to the end, thereby not delaying the implementation for many years.
I think it will take many years for the project to work at full capacity. Need to collect fragmented data worldwide. This is especially true if there is still a need for long journeys.
Now all universities have a computor base. But you agree the computer base of university may not include the persons who graduated university many years ago. And it is a big work to make such base.