Duncan Barclay wrote:
Wow :)
You have to give us more info about how that works ...
Essentially, real places in London have been GPS tagged with hotspots
(variable dimensions) in accordance with locations on the new Monopoly
board. The playing pieces are GPS transmitter equipped cabs, and as they
cross into hotspots (following a sequence of rules) player pieces move
round their online board - rent is paid, money accured, etc etc.
Because of the nature of London traffic, we needed a way to display all
the information on one screen so combined Google Maps (to display exact
positions of each cab every 60 seconds (GPS positions are reported in
milliseconds and converted to proper Google compliant
degrees/mins/seconds for the xml)) with the BBC RSS Traffic Feed to a)
display traffic problems (colour graded based on how close to a hotspot
a problem may be) and b) offer a real time status of the overall traffic
situation in relation to individual cab positions, allowing us to
proactively determine where cabs are having problems - i.e. not
reporting movement data regularly, and therefore impacting on the game
data.
In the course of the last few weeks testing, we now have an enormous
lat/lon positional database for vast swathes of Greater London (and
chunks of Essex too) - this data will be made available publically
following the project's conclusion - complete with nice friendly names
as opposed to Postion #156454A
C.
