Re: [backstage] Traffic Info
Jason Cartwright wrote: 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. Hmm, I might not agree with the fact that it doesn't tell you anything but I do think that there is room for some better visualisations of the data other than points on a map which is old hat now. For instance, on www.gtraffic.info, you can tell at a glance what is going on in a region by clicking on the timeline tab when you drill down into a region. It is limited to about 40 events as the timeline area can't scroll the info bubble up and down. The blue line represent 'now'. 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. The UK has had this for ages at: www.realtime-traffic.info (not occasionally isn't working) Not suggesting that Google are copying the HA or anything. I had a look at the Google effort and I do think there speed coding of the road is well done but what they lack is the (borderline meaningless) gumf like _details_. Having said that, you could be right about boiling the information down to whether you're going to get stuck in a traffic jam or not. It's only saddos like me that are interested in 'underground works' and 'temporary traffic lights' ;) I have created a GWT wrapper for JSViz at: http://code.google.com/p/gwt-jsviz/ I was toying with the idea of creating a net which represented the traffic incidents. I haven't got this worked out quite how but it was something along the lines of a sequence of 'rings'. - the central rings represents incidents closest to now - connected to each node in 'now' is any incidents on the same road which are older moving back in time. You would get a kind of octopus looking thing. I dunno you get the idea. How about a visualisation competition backstage? Must be based on the backstage API feeds obviously. Al. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - with free PC-PC calling and photo sharing. http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] gTraffic.info v2.1 with integrated GWT Simile Timeline
I have finally integrated the Simile timeline into www.gTraffic.info. Select a traffic region and a timeline tab will appear. The timeline tab displays road traffic events in temporal relation to each other and the time now (represented by a vertical blue line). The events are also colour coded for severity. Clicking on the severity icon on the info bubble will flip to the corresponding marker on the map. Now I just need to figure out how to flip from the map to the timeline! This uses a GWT wrapper I wrote for the timeline here: http://code.google.com/p/gwtsimiletimeline/ I first saw this control here on the backstage mailing list which only proves this is a interesting place to hang out. Al. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Yet another traffic site
Hello all, Came across this site by accident. Don't see it mentioned in the prototypes. Uses the Microsoft map. http://www.trafficeye.co.uk/ Al. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Best Mapping API
Hello Richard, Can you be more specific? If you want layers then I am afraid you will have to implement that yourself. The Google maps API is quite lean and mean but there is a reason for that. The real power is in the what goes on on the browser side but you have to implement that yourself. Al. --- Richard Hyett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw the list of APIs http://www.programmableweb.com/apis Which is the best mapping api? What I want is a service that will give me multiple renderings, or is the word overlays? of North East England. I want one which has major cities listed One which emphasises the geography, highground population density, rivers etc One which emphasises the LAD/County borders then obviously I want to be able to superimpose/javascript, data related to postcode on top of one or more of these renderings Most of the Google Maps mashups I've seen have been fairly spartan and unattractive, lacking in colour, but it could just be the examples I've been looking at Richard ___ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Google Mashups
Dharmesh, Not sure I understand what you mean by 'web request'? Can you describe an example? Al. www.gTraffic.info --- Dharmesh Raithatha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks Has anyone got an example of a good googlemasup where you can click on the map to make a web request with the location clicked on? Dharmesh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davy Mitchell Sent: 02 March 2006 21:07 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Mood News - Good News Hey Folks, Quiet around here isn't it ? :-) I am planning a re-org of the Mood News site and as a little starter put together a page of 'good' news. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/good.html There's no link from the main page (yet). Also the Google module is now in the directory: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=mood+news Take care, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ ___ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Feeds and APIs page
Anyone else seeing this. Here: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Data Firefox (1.5) will render the page but clicking on any feed results in a blank page. IE6 only displays blank page. Al. ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Patronising
From the front page of backstage.bbc.co.uk ItÂ’s also refreshing to see a such healthy interest in Web2.0 and remix outside of London Ben, You don't think this is more than a tad patronising? Alistair. ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
