Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Service Unavailable ...
At present, Traffic4England is not working correctly. Changes made to the Highways Agency feeds have effectively broken the application. We're currently in discussions with the Highways Agency, trying to resolve these issues.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Traffic4England ongoing development
At present we're working on enhancing the features and functionality of Traffic4England. The end result of this will be that we'll have two versions, a free and paid for version. The existing free version will continue to be free. The paid for version will add functionality above and beyond the current free version.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
For those people unsure...
of the current Traffic 4 England 'free' status. The application is in its 'trial' phase, where you get to use it for free if you want. By the end of the year this trial phase will terminate and Traffic4England will no longer be available for free on the Android Market place.
For those that are unclear, we didn't make Traffic4England free for a limited time to 'trick' people into downloading it. We made it available for free to gather user feedback about its usefulness, and for people to get an opportunity to see if it was the type of product that would be useful to them.
If people are confused by the time limited nature of the product, we suggest that they uninstall it and use one of the other traffic apps on the marketplace.
For those that are unclear, we didn't make Traffic4England free for a limited time to 'trick' people into downloading it. We made it available for free to gather user feedback about its usefulness, and for people to get an opportunity to see if it was the type of product that would be useful to them.
If people are confused by the time limited nature of the product, we suggest that they uninstall it and use one of the other traffic apps on the marketplace.
Location Location Location
The GPS function with Traffic4England is designed to provide an approximate location to base the traffic events.
Depending on when and where you use the GPS system, the accuracy will be anywhere between within 5 meters to within 5000 meters. Then android gets a GPS 'fix' it then attempts to do whats call reverse geocoding, which effectively calls the Google Map servers and ask them if they've an address for the current longitude/latitude position. Somethings there will be a full address, sometimes where won't, somethings it will be within 5 metres of where you are, sometimes it won't. The accuracy varies depending on where you are.
The GPS feature is there to provide a 'best effort' at placing your location so that the distance to the nearest traffic events realistic. Depending on the prevailing conditions, sometimes it will be accurate, sometimes it won't.
If you need to check, fire up the standard Google maps on Android and use the locate function. Tap the 'current location' marker to get it to show the accuracy in meters of the current GPS reading. This reading is effectively the best Traffic4England can do.
Depending on when and where you use the GPS system, the accuracy will be anywhere between within 5 meters to within 5000 meters. Then android gets a GPS 'fix' it then attempts to do whats call reverse geocoding, which effectively calls the Google Map servers and ask them if they've an address for the current longitude/latitude position. Somethings there will be a full address, sometimes where won't, somethings it will be within 5 metres of where you are, sometimes it won't. The accuracy varies depending on where you are.
The GPS feature is there to provide a 'best effort' at placing your location so that the distance to the nearest traffic events realistic. Depending on the prevailing conditions, sometimes it will be accurate, sometimes it won't.
If you need to check, fire up the standard Google maps on Android and use the locate function. Tap the 'current location' marker to get it to show the accuracy in meters of the current GPS reading. This reading is effectively the best Traffic4England can do.
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Traffic4England Release 1.04
Version 1.04 is primarily a release aimed at improving the stability and robustness of the TrafficRadio.
Now if you try and play the TrafficRadio while the phone can't access the SD Card, it will politely inform you of the fact. It's worth remembering that if you can access the SD card from your PC to copy files, then the SD card is in read-only mode from the phones point of view.
The TrafficRadio works by copying a sound stream from the internet, into a file on the SD card, then playing the file. If the SD card is read-only, this can't happen.
J.
Now if you try and play the TrafficRadio while the phone can't access the SD Card, it will politely inform you of the fact. It's worth remembering that if you can access the SD card from your PC to copy files, then the SD card is in read-only mode from the phones point of view.
The TrafficRadio works by copying a sound stream from the internet, into a file on the SD card, then playing the file. If the SD card is read-only, this can't happen.
J.
Friday, 25 September 2009
Introductory Version
The free version of Traffic4England is our first venture into the world of Android. The basic idea is to make the application available so that people can use it and tell us what they think. The feedback we get will determine what form the application takes going forward.
J.
J.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Whats in the pipeline for 1.04?
We're putting together version 1.04 at present. This will include an improved Radio implementation. Special thanks to Tim for helping identify the issues and beta testing for us.
The current version 1.03 and previous Radio versions have issues with SD Card removal and insertion. In order for the radio to work, it must be able to write incoming data to the SD card, then the Android media player picks up the data and starts playing the stream.
Trouble is, when the user connects the phone to their PC and copies data across, the SD card switches to READ-ONLY from the TrafficRadio program's point of view. The result being that it can't write the incoming data to the SD card and so the radio failed.
These issues have been addressed in version 1.04.
J.
The current version 1.03 and previous Radio versions have issues with SD Card removal and insertion. In order for the radio to work, it must be able to write incoming data to the SD card, then the Android media player picks up the data and starts playing the stream.
Trouble is, when the user connects the phone to their PC and copies data across, the SD card switches to READ-ONLY from the TrafficRadio program's point of view. The result being that it can't write the incoming data to the SD card and so the radio failed.
These issues have been addressed in version 1.04.
J.
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