Warning: contain no talk of DRM, licence fees, or copyright. All the other links are good, but Google appear to have the visualisation down to a fine art. For instance, both those sites tell me that there is an incident up the road on the A40, and they do that with a load of ambiguous (borderline meaningless) gumpf like a "Might End" time and "Severity" plus a swath of text to read. I'm not really interested, and whilst I appreciate the technical-aspects of the mashups, its all a bit rubbish. I just want to know the effect its going to have on my journey time. Google's does this with a ridiciously-easy-to-visually-parse colour coding of the traffic speed. This boils down all the "one lane closed due to barrier repairs" crap into something far more usable. Of course, all this is just my opinion... and I don't even drive :-) J
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Stone Sent: 01 March 2007 11:47 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Traffic Info Also the vecosys post also refers to this UK start up that is using UK traffic data and Microsoft's Virtual Earth. http://www.dotnetsolutions.ltd.uk/evidence/web20/trafficeye/ "A Microsoft Live! Local Web 2.0 Mash-up that combines real time traffic information with a rich, interactive map allowing a helicopter view of all serious traffic incidents in the UK." Jem ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 01 March 2007 11:39 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Traffic Info On 01/03/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.vecosys.com/2007/03/01/google-adds-traffic-flow-reports-but-t here-is-a-better-way/ Google Maps adds a traffic info layer. Looks rather good, but it's US only at the moment. Example: http://maps.google.com/maps?layer=t&z=10&ll=41.883876,-87.632446 J Here's an unofficial UK version: http://www.gtraffic.info/ that does something similar Vijay
