Traffic Info / Feed

[donderhaas]

I am looking at building a site with road traffic info on it to let people know what is happening on the roads - traffic jams.

Does anyone know where I can find a RSS feed with traffic info?

The site is not only going to cover this, but it is a core part to make it work, more than that I can't elaborate at this stage...

Thanks in advance...

 

[guest2013-1]

Cloak & Dagger, I love this type of question...

"I'm doing something and I want to get something but I won't tell you" lol

Anyway... I don't know of such a service, and I guess if there is one the user would probably use that website to check everything (but I guess this is where your cloak & dagger stuff comes into play)

The only one I know about that shows traffic is News24, but that was before their new design and I doubt they had RSS

 

[GreGorGy]

I check traffic info on my cellphone at a few URLs you would be hard-pressed to defeat:

highveld.mobi/traffic.asp
www.ewn.co.za/trafficewn.asp

I am pretty sure that taking their feed into your own site would be regarded as copyright infringement though. Try the new thing from altech...

 

[dequadin]

Cloak & Dagger, I love this type of question...

"I'm doing something and I want to get something but I won't tell you" lol

Shhh dude, it's "TOP SECRET"

 

[donderhaas]

Thanks for the replies so far guys, your funny

The only reason I can't elaborate is that there isn't much to elaborate as I have just started thinking about this and if in fact there isn't a service available - I'm not going in to planning and building the thing.

Thanks for the info on where you get your traffic sources and please list more...

 

[donderhaas]

Anyone know of any??

 

[guest2013-1]

Google's your friend:

http://imod.co.za/2008/08/30/traffic-monitoring-webcams-for-cape-town/
http://www.i-traffic.co.za/
http://www.news24.com/Content/Traffic

 

[guest2013-1]

http://www.netstartraffic.co.za/

 

[guest2013-1]

http://www.mitraffic.co.za/

 

[nic777]

News24 has better info than ewn but no RSS feed, probably have to use a page scraper then. Good luck and please let us know if you can get something up and running

 

[guest2013-1]

yea simple "page scraper" (aka, screen scraper, aka ajax call) should be able to get you the html, then you can use a DOM library like jquery to loop through all the (nicely structured for your pleasure) tables they have in there to get the info you want

 

[donderhaas]

Awesome guys - thanks a lot, I will have a bash at these and see what I can do. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[guest2013-1]

Awesome guys - thanks a lot, I will have a bash at these and see what I can do. I'll let you know how it goes.

That'll be R280 for consultancy fee's. Where can i send my invoice to?