Traffic information on the n900?
 

Does anyone know of an app or a website to visit using the n900 to get up to date traffic information around the uk ? I've tried a couple, sygic maps 10 which was a complete waste of time, geeps but that was no good and a few websites like rac n google maps /m version but the information you get is slim. Any sugestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

By the way, i came across someone that used there rss widget to recieve traffic info but no instructions how to do it? Anyone ere done that before?

Re: Traffic information on the n900?
 

Depends where you are in the UK.

I have tried Google Maps via the various mapping programs, Sygic (which crashes every 10 minutes!).

The best solution I have found for me is to follow a twitter feed which tweets the BBC traffic updates as they come in - in my part of the world it's TyneTravel. I woul suggest searching for it, and then seeing what Twitter highlights as similar. I recall that in certain areas the BBC themselves tweet traffic updates, but not here.

I use TwimGo as my twitter client, and it works well for me, when plugged into a car charger and set to 1 or 5 minute updates. Seems to be about the most responsive to incidents as well.

Re: Traffic information on the n900?
 

For Scotland, http://m.trafficscotland.org/ is excellent - although suffers from "tiny text" unless you use Opera in zoom mode or the very, very excellent Maccuco2.

RSS feeds for the same site are published here:

http://trafficscotland.org/rss/

UK-wide, you can try:

http://mobile.transportdirect.info/

Re: Traffic information on the n900?
 

Hmmm twitter you say? I don't do twitter or facebook or owt like that so i assume i would need an account n that kinda thing? I tried an rss feed from a local website but its not ideal? I need to see a map with the affected areas highlighted if ya know what i mean? The rac makes an app for android and it works well coz i used it on my old phone, shame there doesn't seem to be anything like that for maemo :( A website would do but again, it doesn't load pages with maps very well and can take too long unless there's a mobile version of any of these sites?? Might try twitter but need to know more about it first?

Re: Traffic information on the n900?
 

if you go to your local BBC website you will find a travel map - mine is http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/tyne/roads/unplanned/

The best you will be able to do with a moving map is google traffic on one of the mapping apps like mappero. for twitter, you will need to find a twitter feed for the area you are in.

Re: Traffic information on the n900?
 

I just tried mappero but i can't find anything to do with traffic?

Re: Traffic information on the n900?
 

Not used Mappero on the N900, but I did use maemomapper, which is it's daddy.

You need to make Google maps your source, and then you should be able to enable the google traffic as a layer.

Re: Traffic information on the n900?
 

I found this...

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper/

But it just wants to install mappero 3.2 ? which i already had? Is it just the same app but an older version?