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 whils

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Ian
Hi, I've still yet to do anything towards this, but you might find http://upcoming.org/event/153405/ The State of the Map ( Open Source Streetmap Conference) and http://upcoming.org/event/155807/ (Sheffield Mapping Party) of interest. Cheers Ian I'll create the database, if you drive every r

RE: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Christopher Woods
;s something to try... > -Original Message- > From: Kirk Northrop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 March 2007 14:00 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Traffic Info > > Barry Hunter wrote: > > ... in fact it's something hope

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
Barry Hunter wrote: I'll create the database, if you drive every road to record the speed limit ;-) ... in fact it's something hope is been recorded over at openstreetmap.org ... What a cool site. Looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Kirk Northrop
Barry Hunter wrote: ... in fact it's something hope is been recorded over at openstreetmap.org... This is really interesting! I wanted to go out and walk more, but didn't really have a reason to do so. Now I do! Expect South Manchester to become nicely tracked soon... -- Kirk - Sent via th

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Barry Hunter
On 3/1/07, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: Andrew Bowden wrote: It's certainly interesting as a concept, although I'm cautious on the fact that it doesn't really take into account the speed limits on different roads. Although I've actually no idea how you could take that into account! ---

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
Andrew Bowden wrote: It's certainly interesting as a concept, although I'm cautious on the fact that it doesn't really take into account the speed limits on different roads. Although I've actually no idea how you could take that into account! ---

RE: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Bowden
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright Sent: 01 March 2007 12:40 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Traffic Info Warning: contain no talk of DRM, licence fees, or copyright. All the other links are goo

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Kirk Northrop
Jason Cartwright wrote: 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. Thi

RE: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Jason Cartwright
___ 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 tra

RE: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Bowden
L PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright Sent: 01 March 2007 11:14 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Traffic Info http://www.vecosys.com/2007/03/01/google-adds-traffic-flow-reports-but-t

RE: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Jeremy Stone
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. L

Re: [backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread vijay chopra
On 01/03/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.vecosys.com/2007/03/01/google-adds-traffic-flow-reports-but-there-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

[backstage] Traffic Info

2007-03-01 Thread Jason Cartwright
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 __