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.....

Cartft.com Get A New Shop Front

Logged on today as normal just to see if there where any new products and found they have a brand new shop front. It looks really nice too with a picture of where they are based which gives you feeling that Cartft.com are more than just an Internet reseller.... which ofcourse they are not. Heres what they say about it.

01.07.2007 - CarTFT Shop Relaunch

Since today the CarTFT-Shop has a new
outfit. But not only the design has
changed completely, but the shop also
got new features:

• New segments for business customers and resellers
• Product sorting and comparison functions
• Save shopping carts for later visits
• List of recently surfed products
• Product rating function

You can visit their new web site here.....