[backstage] Yet another traffic site

2006-11-16 Thread Alistair
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

[backstage] gTraffic.info v2.1 with integrated GWT Simile Timeline

2006-11-26 Thread Alistair
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

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-07 Thread Alistair
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

[backstage] Patronising

2005-11-22 Thread Alistair Rutherford
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

[backstage] Feeds and APIs page

2005-12-19 Thread Alistair Rutherford
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

Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-03 Thread Alistair Rutherford
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

Re: [backstage] Best Mapping API

2006-03-25 Thread Alistair Rutherford
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.