05-02-2005, 05:00 PM
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TrafficEdge 3.0 Released
"Save time and frustration by being informed. With TrafficEdge you'll always know the right way home. It gives you easy to understand traffic maps traffic camera images so you can steer clear of the trouble spots."
TrafficEdge 3.0 has just been released for Pocket PC and Smartphone and it allows you to gain access to traffic maps and cameras from the Department of Transport using a server-driven subscription model to ensure that you always have the latest data on-hand. You can download a free trial version from Handango. If it's what you're after, TrafficEdge is available at $4.99! [Affiliate]
Update: Just a quick notice that since I posted the initial announcement, EdgeQ hiked up the price of the software from $2.00 to $4.99.
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05-02-2005, 05:32 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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The traffic maps that I use are from http://traffic.tann.net.
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05-02-2005, 05:58 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2004
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No luck for me. Tann wouldn't let me register, at least, I kept getting "This page cannot be found" each time I tried, and neither has a PDA traffic map for my area.
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05-02-2005, 06:21 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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How can either of these sites consider themselves production ready and not come out the stalls with the DC Metropolitan area?
Then edgeq doesn't seem to list all of their cities. The list about 7 then say "and many more".
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05-02-2005, 09:12 PM
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Ponderer
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NO San Francisco? Are they kidding??? 8O
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05-02-2005, 09:21 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Dec 2005
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are there ANY of these that do DC metro area? traffic here is the pits...
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05-02-2005, 09:41 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Maybe we should be sending them the link to this thread and see if they have any idea of responding or updating.
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05-02-2005, 10:55 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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It's useless to me (not living anywhere it would cover) but I looked out of interest.
Did they hike up the price since you posted? You say it's $2, but the link says it's $5.
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05-03-2005, 12:32 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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This software seems a little useless to me.
The traffic flow map in the original post is the traffic map created and maintained by Washington State DOT. You can take a look at the Washington State DOT's Seattle traffic flow map here to see what I'm talking about. Maybe this company reformatted the page for optimal viewing on a PPC.
Since the software requires a live link to the Internet to provide real-time updates, someone could just as easily navigate to the DOT web page using PIE and view the web page for free.
I don't see the added value for the subscription fee for users in Washington state. The only thing this product seems to provide is a reformatted web page. If the DOT's web page doesn't render well on a PPC, then things would be different. I don't have a wireless connection so I can't confirm this.
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05-03-2005, 03:10 AM
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Originally Posted by mr_Ray
Did they hike up the price since you posted? You say it's $2, but the link says it's $5.
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Er... unfortunately, yes. 
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