That however was my problem with it - the colour coding is easy but
simplistic. A motorway going at 30 mph for me, says bad and wrong, but
under Google's colour coding, that's a yellow.
Meanwhile, (say) an road A-road [1] in a suburban area with a 30mph
would be classed as yellow even though it's running normally.
Like you, I don't have a car. Which is why my favourite traffic
disruption map is this one :)
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html
[1] if this was in the UK of course
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Sent: 01 March 2007 12:40
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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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
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[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
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[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
