I don't know if this is any help... http://www.dft.gov.uk/transportdirect/tools/intelligentlinks
2009/1/6 Peter Schofield <[email protected]> > Hi Mike, > > You are correct in deducing that road traffic messages are cleared when > their version number is set to 255. It does always work. We have had issues > in the past were incident version numbers incremented above 255 > (particularly after an incident was cleared, then updated to become active > again), but this has now been fixed. Cleared messages are now always set to > 255. > > As regards the point about public transport nodes always being set as > 'railway service', this is due to a limitation in our service provider's > description of incidents. > > Hope this helps. > > Best regards, > Peter. > > -- > *Peter Schofield*, Travel Content Producer, BBC English Regions (New > Media) > Area F1, Level 10, BBC Birmingham, The Mailbox, BIRMINGHAM B1 1RF. > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mike Moody > *Sent:* 05 January 2009 16:48 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [backstage] Travel feed data.... > > I'm wondering if one of you good fellows can help me....? > > I am in the process of writing a vista gadget (similar to the ones produced > by the daily snooze) that consumes the BBC travel feeds. The idea is to > provide a gadget that can display the latest travel information for a > specified area. > > The development is done (for the most part) but I'm having some specific > problems with the data within the XML feeds: > > *For Road traffic messages... * > The only way I can see to tell if a road incident has been cleared is if > the version_number attribute on the road_traffic_message node is set to 255. > This seems very arbitrary and I'm not sure if it always works... > > *For other (public transport) messages...* > Each item has a transport_mode node (with an attribute of the same name) on > the root public_transport_information node. I assumed that > this transport_mode sub-node described the type of transport mode for the > item.... however it is always "railway service" (entity reference: > pti1_1) regardless of whether the node describes air, ferry or railway > information. > > Any help / clarification on these would be most helpful. > > Mike > > > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
