Comments on: Great time to be a developer

By: Junkienatural

Junkienatural — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Even a monkey knows that its either 7.45AM or after 9AM on any office commute highway! :)

But awesome exercise though! Even I knew the results, I learnt few new tools!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Very cool, thanks Jon!
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like they track traffic for 360 in Austin. Also, it doesn’t seem very trustworthy (only *minor* slowdown on MoPac and I-35 during rush hour?)

By: Jon Peterson

Jon Peterson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:37:00 +0000

Google’s traffic overlay in Maps has historical data. Bring up the overlay, and in the bottom-left there’s a new Legend that pops up. Next to where it says “Live traffic”, click the “change” link, and voila.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:21:00 +0000

No documented web service that I know of. That’s the problem: the way I’m calling their URL is not correct, so I’m not getting correct traffic delay information.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:07:00 +0000

As I was reading through your post, I was expecting to see the url for your project, or at least the actual AJAX query that you found. Why am I looking for these items? Because I was thinking about trying this project using Visual Studio 2010 and .Net

By: Gustavo Vedotti

Gustavo Vedotti — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Hi, great post mate! I’d like to know if TomTom exposes a Webservice for that or you had to find an alternate way?

Cheers.

By: itoctopus

itoctopus — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:07:00 +0000

It is indeed a great time to be a developer. Without all the tools that we have anything that usually takes an hour or two to accomplish will take us several months…

I sometimes think about this myself…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:44:00 +0000

I’ve wanted to do a similar thing. I was thinking I might just use Node to do it in the background at work or at home all day. If it saves to a CSV file, then just import to Excel and blam, DONE. Of course it’s not as “cool” as a web-based app but if it’s just for you, who cares?

Let us know if you find a better API… it’s amazing there isn’t a service that just does this; even Google hasn’t done it, although they do have travel time in their Navigation app. Maybe Google exposes this in a deep down layer somewhere we can call?

By: Scooletz

Scooletz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:20:00 +0000

That was _fast_

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:22:00 +0000

Wow, thanks for the link Stijn, that *is* very interesting. Two very different solutions to the same problem.

My issue with the URL is that I’m using the URL of an AJAX call which just brings back the route data, whereas it looks like you are using a URL for the entire page (which makes sense when taking a picture of the screen). I suspect there is some additional data in the page data that is passed to the AJAX call, which changes on each request, and makes sure the traffic data is included. I need to figure out which parameters/headers to pass to make it accurate.