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DIYtraffic for London?

Submitted by John Geraci on 26 February 2009 - 3:28pm to DIY London.

I was contacted by someone from London asking if there were plans to set up an instance of DIYtraffic there. I replied we'd love to see it there, if someone can produce a reliable rss feed for live traffic data for the city.

Does anyone know of such a feed for London?

Or for all of UK?

26 Feb19:49

There's a georss feed

By kaerast

There's a georss feed created from bbc backstage/labs data. I'm using the Bradford data on a project I'm playing with, I don't know how useful the London data is in general or specifically for diytraffic.

26 Feb20:47

re: georss feed

By John Geraci

That looks like it could do the trick. Though not being from London myself, I'm not sure if I'm the one to oversee this particular project. I see feeds for London West, London East etc etc. I think this needs guidance by a local's hand.

Does anyone want to coordinate with us to get a DIYtraffic set up for London? Think it should go very quickly if we do.

27 Feb03:53

feed format?

By dan.greenblatt

hi kaerast -

thanks for the pointer - that looks like it cold be a good source for traffic info across the uk. but do you know what's up with the data format?

that doesn't seem like kosher rss to me? sees like a weird combo of rss and rdf?!?

as long as it's stable (i.e. they don't change the format), shouldn't be too hard to write code to parse it....