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Old March 27th 08, 02:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default Jamspy - traffic jams plotted on a map..

In message
, at
06:42:58 on Thu, 27 Mar 2008, MrTraffic
remarked:
I'd be interested to hear any useful feedback or comments on the
sites' useability and features.


A couple of quick things:

The traffic jams don't differentiate between direction on the road. Jams
are often uni-directional, especially on motorways.

"ROADWORKS CAUSE: unknown" could just as well be omitted.

The site seems to mix up Jams and Roadworks. Several of the "Jams" are
not real-time incidents, but long-term temporary traffic lights,
diversions etc.

This may be a problem with the feed you are getting (I was looking at
doing a similar project about 12 years ago as was a bit frustrated that
the AA's (I think it was) so-called traffic "news" was full of things
like "The M1 has roadworks at Junction 10 until September 2009".
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Roland Perry