watchtheRoad
Description
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View live UK traffic data overlaid onto Google Maps!
Features:
- Live data from the BBC, updated regularly, many different regional feeds to choose from!
- View events as a scrolling ticker for casual updates, or as a list for easier browsing
- Enable/disable maps with a click
- Different events have different symbols for easy identification, these symbols are also shown on the map
- Search for and store your home location for easy reference
- Filter by event severity - only see the events that are important to you!
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Works with Opera 9 to Opera 12.
About this widget
| Downloads | 71,396 |
|---|---|
| Category | Travel |
| Version | 1.2 |
| Size | 221KB |
| Last update | May 28, 2007 |
| Devices | desktop |
| Original page | Internet Archive |
Great widget! I hope that one day you may give it the same UI set-up as touchTheSky - either way the widget is still very useful. Dava
Any plans to come up with a version for German roads?
Dava - Because the various optional parts of the display are dependent on each other, it wasn't possible to separate the data onto individual drawers like touchtheSky. So I stuck with one single panel, rather than confuse things and have people expect it to work the same. Glad you all like it, though! Evo2Me, I'd love to have more international options - any idea where I could get travel data for Germany?
If you could find travel data for the US then I'm sure it would instantly become a popular widget. I love the widget design..too bad I can't really use it for directions tho..since I'm not in the UK and all, haha.
I potentially have US data, via Yahoo! - but it's in a different format so I have to build a different parsing module for it. But I'm sure it will happen when I find the time.
What kind of format should the data have, that you need for other countries? Germany is difficult, because the services that covers the complete country often not free.
Can you make an ireland version
hmmmm it just doesn't display anything for me, it's there on the taskbar, but nothing happens when i click it.
hmmm seems like a timeout problem from google maps for me
Yes, unfortunately it needs to load script files from Google Maps before it can continue running and start the widget. I'm sure there's a method for dynamically loading scripts once the widget is loaded, but it may have unintended side effects, so it may be a while before I can implement it.
Hello, great but you can get overwhelmed by data. Can you add some options to only show motorway info.
Another great widget from you! Im using Opera on Linux Slax 5.1.2.3 and the widget works great!
kevcowley, there's a Motorways option in the Region settings.
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only for UK traffic?
Very useful widget for UK. This widget will search for the best route to visit a list of locations. h t t p://widgets.opera.com/widget/8821/
What happened to Hampshire?
not bad for saying its UK but its a bit slow server side with loading updates maybe my internet i dont know.
This widget needs to be upgraded. It does not work.
the current version simply does not work/ it opens but does not actual SHOW itself...