Wednesday, April 29, 2009

London Live Traffic Widget

So here come the first Exclamatory widget from us. This widget uses the feed provided by TFL (Transport for London).It provides you a snapshot taken by CCTV camera installed at various positions in London. This images get updated at a rate defined by TFL. While using this information, please see time stamp and date embedded in image. Please note that CCTV camera may be nonoperational because of any reason. In that case, you will not be able to see images provided by that camera.

What are the Charges?
Please be aware that,traffic information is provided to you without any cost from application developer. But you may be charged by your service provider for downloading content from the Internet.

Why should I use this widget?
Daily commuter can get the traffic information of their area of interest to avoid traffic jams.Weather condition of the place and any unusual event leading to traffic jam can be seen before you get stuck in that and take an alternative route.

Features
1) Pure, Simple and Easy to use widget. No settings or configuration required
2) Provides easily navigable list of locations to see images
3) Help and Close buttons are provided for quick actions
4) Additional help is available on this blog
5) Detect the Internet connectivity of device

How it is different from other traffic widgets?
Most of the gadgets just provides you information about traffic at certain places. They don't provide live images of the place.

Is it useful all over the world.?
No. We get the live images of traffic that is provided "Transport for London". So this widget is useful only for London.

System Requirements
This widget is tested on N95 handset and is optimized for a 320x240 mobile screen. This will also runs in any Opera 9.5 browser with widget support. A mobile device needs to have either "Vodafone Widget Runtime" or "Opera Widget Runtime" installed, in order to run this widget.

How to use?
1) Install Vodafone Widget Runtime or Opera Widget Runtime
2) copy LiveTraffic.wgt into your phone.
3) If you have Vodafone Widget Runtime(App Manager) installed,

Screenshots:
Following image is showing screenshot of the application. In order from left,Home Screen,Traffic Image,Help,Connection Error




Disclaimer
This widget uses the feed provided by "Transport For London". Click For More information

Understand error:
1) "Information not available" - In case of this error, please check the Internet
connection of device.
2) If you see image having text, "This camera is currently unavailable for operational reasons",you wont be able to see images provided by that camera.

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