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Traffic
Ever been sat in a traffic jam on the motorway and wondered how long you're going to be sat there? No? Me neither since Google Maps/Waze/any live update SatNav became popular. However whilst sat in the back of a vehicle without access to one of those services I decided to see if there were any websites offering a similar service. And there are! But they are, frankly, crap. Filled with ads, all trying to load a map and lots of live update JavaScript. Very unhelpful when you are on a stretch of motorway with only Edge/2G coverage.
Angered by this experience I built traffic.
It turns out that in the UK (or England at least), the Highways Agency publishes an RSS feed of all the latest scheduled and unscheduled traffic disruption. Unfortunately this feed is for every motorway all at once.
traffic reads this feed and then breaks it down by the
road name (or, I guess number), creating a static HTML
website.
Just run this on a cron job every hour or so and never worry about having a slow web connection when looking for traffic updates again!
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