ok sean, not sure if you remembered my comments about me using my escort radar detectors and laser jammers..
but i tried your app tonight to and from my girls house, wanted to put it through a test. ill give you a little background about my journey so you can understand. 98% of it is on long islands major artery, the long island expressway. i travel between exit 63 and exit 53, exactly 10 exits. between these 10 exits there is AT LEAST 1 split in the center divider for sheriffs to sit and some long exits have 2. so thats a minimum of at least 10 dividers or police traps and if i count correctly there may be as many as 13 or 14.
id say about half of those were actually reported on trapster but its ok because ive been doing this trip and driving on the expressway for years so i know exactly where these gaps are and when and which ones they usually sit at.
tonight there was only one spot which cops were at and they were doubled yet on the other side of the road and it was a spot reported by trapster.
my only concern is if we were to report all these spots it would probably get annoying because locals all know that these spots are randomly filled yet some a little more filled than others.
im not saying its a good or bad thing, i do like the fact that i can run it in the background and lock the phone. its very loud so i can blast my music as well too.
i just think certain areas, like mine if your going to do it correctly would need all those spots marked because cops do sit at them. maybe not tonight, but maybe tomorrow or maybe next week. so many areas will be over populated with traps, but better safe than sorry i guess.
i do believe its a very good app for places you are quite unfamiliar with because cops are human, they are creatures of habits. once you live somewhere long enough and enough people mark it theres a good chance a cop will usually be there. i could drive this 10 exit trip home blind folded and know exactly when im going to hit a speed trap yet if im going upstate or every september i head to ocean city maryland for a vw/audi show this would probably be very sweet. going through the neighboring county and also the city, it would help greatly for redlight camers and speed cameras too.
also, suggestion for default settings.. i drove to her house with the app running, not a single time did it alert me. all my traps on my route had a cop car with a picture of a tree on them which i now know means a hidden trap.
i then went through the settings and realized the ONLY items (speed traps, cameras, red lights, etc) that was NOT set to vibrate and alert notification was hidden traps. unsure as to why that was the only setting not activated but once i activated it, it worked the entire way home.
so basically, for an app driving to work or my girls house or to the super market it really isnt being used to its best in my opinion. where it seems to flourish and work perfectly (which i have yet to test but image works wonders) would be for red light cameras, speed cameras and also areas where people are unfamiliar with as far as cop activity.
i probably wont use this as a "first line" defensive item, i will continue to rely on my radar detector (which does the same thing as this app, but obviously includes radar and laser band support) and my laser jammers. yet id still like to run this app in the background in my cup holder as more of a support item just to see how well it works incase my radar detector some how misses a red light camera or speed camera. i will also definitely use it when traveling to unfamiliar areas where i have no idea what police patrol patterns are like.
great idea, definitely keep it up and i hope to see more people using this. the more users, the better the feedback. im praying more android owners pop up in my area, there are spots within 1 day of using ive had to start marking. perfect tool for your average driver who doesnt have access to radar detectors, etc and also a great support tools for those who do.