Adders Traffic Yahoo widget
Post categories: prototypes
| 19:24 UK time, Monday, 4 June 2007
My Yahoo Widget is written to provide local traffic information direct to your desktop. The idea started, as there doesn't appear to be an easy way to find any road incidents within 5/10/15/etc miles of your current location.
The widget currently accepts a postcode and a range set in the preferences and retrieves the all incidents within the range from the specified postcode.
The server is updating its database from the Backstage Traffic Data feeds and then providing the information via a simple xml feed that is then used for both the Widget and the Google map on the site.
I just need to find some time to add the additional information in the Traffic feeds to the Widget and improve the quality and presentation of the information provided.
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