Nice traffic RSS feed
I've been writing a little traffic warning script for my nslu2 (nothing special it plays traffic jam noises if there is a problem on the road to work:-) Anyway I started out scraping the BBC traffic page, however I had cause to look for a better source and came across this rss feed from the Highways agency on this page (http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11253.aspx) http://www.highways.gov.uk/rssfeed/rss.xml Thought someone else may find it useful (I like it, it even has the lat/lon of the incident so I can limit the search to bits of the A14 I actually use) -- Michael ~~~ Michael John Lush PhD Tel:44-1223 492626 Bioinformatician HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee Email: h...@genenames.org European Bioinformatics Institute Hinxton, Cambridge URL: http://www.genenames.org ~~~
Re: Nice traffic RSS feed
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:15 +, Michael Lush wrote: > I've been writing a little traffic warning script for my nslu2 (nothing > special it plays traffic jam noises if there is a problem on the road to > work:-) > > Anyway I started out scraping the BBC traffic page, however I had cause to > look for a better source and came across this rss feed from the Highways > agency on this page (http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11253.aspx) > > http://www.highways.gov.uk/rssfeed/rss.xml > > Thought someone else may find it useful (I like it, it even has the > lat/lon of the incident so I can limit the search to bits of the A14 I > actually use) Thanks. That looks very useful although it's a shame it only includes unplanned events so most causes of serious traffic problems (roadworks) wont be covered by it.
Re: Nice traffic RSS feed
On 5 Mar 2010, at 10:38, Jason Clifford wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:15 +, Michael Lush wrote: I've been writing a little traffic warning script for my nslu2 (nothing special it plays traffic jam noises if there is a problem on the road to work:-) Anyway I started out scraping the BBC traffic page, however I had cause to look for a better source and came across this rss feed from the Highways agency on this page (http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11253.aspx) http://www.highways.gov.uk/rssfeed/rss.xml Thought someone else may find it useful (I like it, it even has the lat/lon of the incident so I can limit the search to bits of the A14 I actually use) Thanks. That looks very useful although it's a shame it only includes unplanned events so most causes of serious traffic problems (roadworks) wont be covered by it. The regional feeds cover both planned and unplanned events; http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11278.aspx Chris.
Re: Nice traffic RSS feed
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:15:54AM +, Michael Lush wrote: > http://www.highways.gov.uk/rssfeed/rss.xml > > Thought someone else may find it useful (I like it, it even has the > lat/lon of the incident so I can limit the search to bits of the A14 I > actually use) Which makes it remarkably easy to convert into .kml... R
