Prototypes
Goggle Earth Live Travel Information Feed
This prototype downloads some TPEGML feeds and returns the information to the Google Earth client across the Internet.
Google Earth can be downloaded from http://earth.google.com and the travel feed automatically added by typing http://www.agm.me.uk/gps/googleearth/travel.kml in to your browser and clicking "Open".
The national RTM feed is being used in the prototype along with some northern feeds (Tyneside, The North and The North East) and some southern ones (London and The South East). The data is cached for around 10 minutes.
The code is written in PHP using MySQL running on a Linux server.
In theory this could feed the entire travel database in real-time. I would like to enhance the icons so that show what the problem in addition to the severity. I would also like to highlight a stretch of affected roads around an incident instead of just taking the midpoint.
- 31 Aug 2005 11:40 AM
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