VOICES Traffic Data

**stevieg** · 05-11-2004, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by wildcard

Those route 66 coords you gave a link for look like lat/lon with the decimal point missing so 5655341 is 56.55341 and -259870 is -2.59870 - looks like decimal point goes 5 digits in from the right. Works for the few lines I tested.

Yep I've done that for it - some are right, some are very wrong! Not sure whether they are in the wrong lat/lon format, apparently there are diferent ones apart from WGS84 and radial calcuations etc but I know nothing about the calculations etc

**stevieg** · 05-11-2004, 03:55 PM

Heres an example of how the Route 66 data is right for some and wrong for others. the first example is right, the second is hundreds of miles out!

Any ideas?

**wildcard** · 05-11-2004, 04:08 PM

The "wrong" one has the decimal point in the wrong place for the lon. There's only 5 digits so -5.1655 should be -0.51655 :-)

**stevieg** · 05-11-2004, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by wildcard

The "wrong" one has the decimal point in the wrong place for the lon. There's only 5 digits so -5.1655 should be -0.51655 :-)

Aha that would explain it I will have a look

**skippy76** · 05-11-2004, 04:19 PM

Good work guys!

**[iG]** · 05-11-2004, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by skippy76

Well, I'm sure there are TMC sources out there for Canada. The idea is that Stevieg produces the ultimate source of traffic data via his site, which would make use of as many different data sources as possible.

That would be real nice. However, i've looked online for this stuff before and wasnt able to find anything that would give me a feed that i can interpret, such as xml,etc. Toronto uses a system called COMPASS, they do provide camera pictures and some information about area's that have problems on their page which is updated using some sort off a ghetto way. If you look at their source code for their site you can see where they use a programm to replace the code with new chunk every whatever minutes.

Compass:
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass/

Once nice thing is the flow charts for 2 major highways:
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/tra...ficmaphome.htm

If anyone knows any other feeds for this area, please let me know heh.

**skippy76** · 05-11-2004, 04:26 PM

Ok, here's a good site for the US:

http://www.traffic.com/

Not had much chance to look into feasability though.

**stevieg** · 05-11-2004, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by wildcard

The "wrong" one has the decimal point in the wrong place for the lon. There's only 5 digits so -5.1655 should be -0.51655 :-)

Thanks. Now the UK Route 66 TMC data will download correctly.

Anyone have any ideas about the german/french ones etc?

**skippy76** · 05-11-2004, 05:54 PM

Route 66 supports:

Neatherlands, France, Italy, German and GB... The command line has the

**SilentAdmirer** · 05-11-2004, 06:14 PM

http://rs0124.66.com:8080/tmc?time=0&l=ENG&m=???8&u=1
replace ??? with
Netherlands = NLD
France = FRA
Italy = ITA
Germany = DEU
UK = ENG

Except of UK all other regions does not seem to have lat/lon .