Get traffic news to your mobile (or car?) from BBC Backstage
Here’s a practical BBC Backstage app. Turns out the BBC is serving real-time traffic information in XML format (the link is in their feed list), and this pal just pulls the XML in Python and filters out his favourite highway. And can do it to his mobile, since it can run apps. Simply great.
Now the only missing link here is that I want to be able to get this info straight into my car’s onboard navigation system and integrate it with the positioning thing. I found the navigation system extremely useful (more coming up sometime later in another post), but I want it to stream realtime traffic data onto it. As far as I understand, radio stations broadcast signals that instruct the onboard radio to auto-tune to a station that broadcasts traffic announcements or simply news, but I don’t think they’re publishing the announcements in digital format that the navigation computer would recognize. As far as I know, those things are not really user-programmable and expandable. Hey, with the web2.0 frenzy, how come I hear nothing about cars? I don’t think I saw a single post or article about how the crazy web2.0 shit will influence cars and their intelligent systems. Yet these days many people spend many days in traffic, and it’s only gonna get worse.
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