Moving hosts

Its been some time that I wanted to move to a PHP5 host. Finally I have moved over to a new host. Hope to see more activity here now. Also moving over to WordPress 2.5

Eagleeye – Fireeagle and Bangalore traffic

I have been using Fireeagle (FE), the location platform from Yahoo!, for some time and its great. It is a one stop place for location aware apps to take off. There are a dozen apps which update your FE location on a periodic basis, Navizon works great. But the real power of FE is going to be services powered by location information from FE. Take for example wikinear, wonderful stuff which gives you places of interest around your current location.

So then inspired by wikinear i have a mash up of FE and btis.in to give you a view of the traffic hot spots around your current location. This queries your FE location and then gets the live traffic data from btis for the current city that you are in. It orders the traffic information based on the distance and then presents it on a map in 3 sections. Hopefully that should give some warning of the spots to avoid when you are planning to go out. Traffic information for cities supported by the Mapunity API’s will be given out. So this is not Bangalore specific. Best used from a mobile device. Feedback welcome.

Here’s a snapshot

Bangalore Hosur highway

bangalore_hosur, originally uploaded by Jebu I.

Snapped sometime back, looks good with the top portion snipped off

BTRAC – Bangalore traffic follow up

This Ad appeared in most of the papers today. Interesting point 2 talks about using cellphone signals to monitor traffic.