Realtime Traffic & Speed Cams

[loick]

A very cool-looking app (downloaded just now on 16-March), but on startup it has placed me and my Droid Eris (Android 1.5) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Google Maps correctly places me in Bethesda, MD.

All 3 checkboxes are checked in my Location Settings for "Use wireless networks", "Location Setting" and "Enable GPS Satellites"

Hi jae_63,

By Default, Google Maps locates you in Tulsa (Google developpement labs) if your location can not be found.

Can you tell me if the GPS icon is blinking or not? If it's not blinking, it means the GPS signal is good so press the round icon between the zoom in and zoom out icons to force the map to be centred on your location. After than you may not need to do it again.
If you are not driving with my app it's a normal behaviour even if I do agree it could be strange.

I'll try to fix this on the next releases. Thanks for your feedback.

 

[rayvincent]

Just installed the app,
won't be driving for another 5 hours, it'll give me time to play wih the options and gps I guess.
Looking forward to see how it handles Rhode Island.

 

[loick]

Just installed the app,
won't be driving for another 5 hours, it'll give me time to play wih the options and gps I guess.
Looking forward to see how it handles Rhode Island.

rayvincent,

Cool !!!

Please give me feedback as I'm doing all my tests from France and it's good to know how other countries are using my app.

Feel free to make any comment on bugs or anything going wrong with it

 

[jae_63]

Hi jae_63,

By Default, Google Maps locates you in Tulsa (Google developpement labs) if your location can not be found.

Can you tell me if the GPS icon is blinking or not? If it's not blinking, it means the GPS signal is good so press the round icon between the zoom in and zoom out icons to force the map to be centred on your location. After than you may not need to do it again.
If you are not driving with my app it's a normal behaviour even if I do agree it could be strange.

I'll try to fix this on the next releases. Thanks for your feedback.

The GPS icon was blinking, but pressing on the round icon did the trick. I thought that I had tried this previously (I have subsequently uninstalled and reinstalled your app).

Thanks for the quick help!

 

[loick]

The GPS icon was blinking, but pressing on the round icon did the trick. I thought that I had tried this previously (I have subsequently uninstalled and reinstalled your app).

Thanks for the quick help!

Hi jae_63,

Happy too see that you found a solution to your problem.

Don't forget to rate and comment the app on the Market.

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-03-22) :

Version 1.0.21d Code Version 38: For any Android version having standard screen size:

• Evolution: You can now display the driving route between your position and the destination. This is the first step before simple navigation in the application.
• Evolution: You can now switch from "Users" to "Average Speed" to "Distance" by touching the items.
• Improvement: Different layers are now properly displayed. Trafic Info is not any more over speedcams, accident and you location cursor.
• Improvement: Reduce load time and memory use.
• Fix: Default language could be set back to French. Language is set to Android language by default.

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-03-26) :

Version 1.0.22d Code Version 39: For Android 1.6 and earlier:

• Evolution: Phone now vibrated on notification
• Improvement: Reduce load time and memory use.
• Improvement: Reduced battery consumption.
• Improvement: Speedup track display in navigation mode

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-04-01) :

Version 1.0.23b Code Version 40: For any Android version having standard screen size:

• Evolution: Add rider mode. Display without map with large fonts. Screen is flashing on notification.
• Improvement: Network optimisation to limit battery consumption.

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-03-26) :

Version 1.0.24b Code Version 41: For Android 1.6 and earlier:

• Improvement: Network optimisation. Cache was refreshed while switching from an other application to Real Time Traffic.
• Improvement: The phone now vibrates during the notifications to allow bikers to better feel the alert.

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-04-12) :

Version 1.0.25g Code Version 42: For any Android version having standard screen size:

• Improvement: Vibrations for bikers wasn't very calibrated.
• Improvement: Reduce battery consumption by 30%.
• Improvement: 90% of features now work on Samsung Spica (Thanks to Billy Bug).
• Fix: The "New Trip" option didn't reset always counters. You may had to restart the service to make the reset efficient. Selecting "New Trip" now automatically restart the service for you.

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-04-16) :

Version 1.0.26e Code Version 43: For Android 1.6 and earlier:

• Improvement: 90% of features now work on Samsung Spica (Thanks to Billy Bug).
• Fix: Trips exports was not working on Samsung Spica
• Fix: Economy driving sign was not working on Samsung Spica

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-04-22) :

Version 1.0.27c Code Version 44: For any Android version having standard screen size:

• Improvement: Simple port of version 1.0.26 for android 1.1 to 1.5

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-04-28) :

Version 1.0.28a Code Version 45: For Android 1.6 and earlier

• Evolution: You can now mute and/or disable vibrations
• Improvement: Reduce by 30% network access for the background service.
• Improvement: Vibrations were random.

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[inaz4sun]

I liked it better the first time when it was called Trapster.

 

[loick]

I liked it better the first time when it was called Trapster.

This app has no link with trapster as trapster has no crowdsourcing on traffic info and I didn't developped Trapster.

Anyway if something is missing on my app, feel free to leave any comment.

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-05-03) :

Version 1.0.29a Code Version 46: For any Android version having standard screen size:

• Improvement: Simple port of version 1.0.28a for android 1.1 to 1.5

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[inaz4sun]

This app has no link with trapster as trapster has no crowdsourcing on traffic info and I didn't developped Trapster.

Anyway if something is missing on my app, feel free to leave any comment.

Duh. That is a way of saying, there is already a WIDELY accepted app across multiple platforms that does mostly what this does called Trapster.

 

[loick]

Duh. That is a way of saying, there is already a WIDELY accepted app across multiple platforms that does mostly what this does called Trapster.

No it's a polite way to say "This tread is not about Trapster" and Trapster does not provide the following services:

- No registration required (everything is anonymous)
- Crowdsourced Traffic Info (tell the other user how traffic conditions were when you drove somewhere)
- Instant speed
- Average speed
- Logged users arround you
- Trip management
- Export and share your trips by mail, Google Earth and Google maps
- Nigth/Day mode
- Biker mode
- etc...

 

[TambourineMan]

I confess I haven't tried this app yet.

I have tried Trapster and it's annoying. It sends me an email every day saying there are updated traffic cams and speed traps - why can't it just send an update direct to my phone so i don't have to sync it to update it?

As for traffic, I just use Google which also does navigation - why add another program? just add any other features as another layer to Google that can be toggled on and off, like Latitude

 

[loick]

I confess I haven't tried this app yet.

I have tried Trapster and it's annoying. It sends me an email every day saying there are updated traffic cams and speed traps - why can't it just send an update direct to my phone so i don't have to sync it to update it?

As for traffic, I just use Google which also does navigation - why add another program? just add any other features as another layer to Google that can be toggled on and off, like Latitude

Hi TambourineMan,

The idea of my app is to have everything in one app as opening several apps uses a lot of memory.

The "plus" of my app is the Traffic Info comming from users. Indeed, while driving with my app you send your position and speed to my server so I can create my own Traffic Info layers to places where Google hasn't any Traffic Info (very usefull when main street are very busy).

Off course I hadded several features any other app doesn't include like trip sharing (look how I went back home to avoid bad traffic conditions), biker mode (they need large display) and so on ...

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-05-07) :

Version 1.0.30a Code Version 47: For Android 1.6 and earlier

• Improvement: Divides by 4 network access to download Traffic Info layers (Collaboratives and Google Extended).
• Improvement: Divides by 4 Info Traffic layers cache size
• Improvement: Better Traffic Info layer rendering to make it easier to see on the map.
• Improvement: Traffic Info is now 4 times faster to load
• Improvement: Important reduction of battery use (in relationship with low network access)

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[loick]

New release on the market (2010-05-12) :

Version 1.0.31a Code Version 48: For any Android version having standard screen size:

• Improvement: Simple port of version 1.0.30a for android 1.1 to 1.5

As this software is free it's success only depends on comments on the market. Can you rate and comment my app on the market?

 

[iynCognito]

Why does the app need permission to directly call phone numbers?

 

[loick]

My app use this permission to be able to call 911 when you tick the option "make emergency call" while notifying an accident.

 

[TambourineMan]

I have now tried this app.

I hadn't tried it before because I thought it only pulled in traffic information from other users and and even though I am in a densely populated region (Boston) I could not imagine that there would be enough users yet to get sufficient traffic info.

But it seemed to have full traffic info similar to what I get from Google of Live maps. Duh, I now see there is a setting to allow both Google traffic and collaborative info.

What does the "50" button do?

When it says "Eco" what does that mean? And why does the color change form green to yellow to red?

Is there any way to change it to show mph, rather than Km/H?