A Public Online Traffic System For Use In The car

For some of you lucky people who have met me face to face I been able to show you my private traffic system. This is a set of custom web pages skined to match my car & controlable by big chunky touch screen happy buttons. I did this because I can do HTML quite easily and using some of the free public systems I have a very good working system - but its far from perfect. ( BTW - Its accessable from any web browser which means I can move front ends or make major changes very easily :)

Now because some of the items I use I can not share for a number of reasons I've decided to be more adventurous and work with the Google maps API.

It all started when I found the 'Watchtheroads' widget for Opera. The reason for this was that it was the first system I had found based on Java script alone rather than a big SQL server & loads of PHP behind it to get updates.

So - I'm now going through this and picking out the bits I need and mashing it all together with serveral other services I have which work stand-a-lone. The end result of all this should be one fancy system thats free to use and is CarPC friendly.

Services planned for this are....

• BBC TPEG TMC
• UK Highways Agency Traffic Info
• UK Highways Agency Adverage Speed Data
• UK Highways Agency Motoway Matrix Signs
• Motoway & Town Cameras
• UK Speed Cams
• US Traffic

I'm also looking at doing this both and on and offline version later on to provide directions, on screen notifications & voice prompts..... but lets get the basics done first.

More info on the project can be found in my work log here.....