Yahoo! Traffic API

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:31:17 -0500

The Yahoo! Traffic API provides traffic alerts for U.S. locations. Alerts can be requested with city/state/zip or latitude/longitude and a search radius in miles. Results are returned in XML and can include a map image.

url: http://developer.yahoo.com/traffic/rest/V1/index.html

NYC Way

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:17:05 -0500

NYC Way is an iPhone application that bundles a variety of local resources useful for residents and tourists alike. It happens to be one of the first mobile apps to combine a wide variety of datasets from NYC.gov (along with various third-party datasets), location awareness and social media. Experience the power of 30+ NYC-related iPhone apps packaged into one.

Based around the theme of making our government more transparent, NYC Way is a first step to help NYC.gov share their rich datasets with the rest of us. It uses various datasets from NYC Data Mine, and many others available via NYC.gov.

NYC Way is location-aware and provides you with information sorted by proximity. The app allows you to update your Facebook status or send out a tweet about any place you discovered or visited.

In an upcoming release, we plan to implement real-time location v/s interest analysis, and hook the app up to a sophisticated Complex Event Processing backend that will correlate user interests and actions with current situation and location to make valuable local recommendations.

NYC Way includes all of the following and more:

Nearest wifi hotspot locations
NYC restaurant inspection results
Major NYC tourist attractions
NYC street eats (NYC street vendors)
NYC coffee shops
NYC gadget stores
NYC events
NYC live traffic cams and traffic updates
NYC subway station locations and alerts
NYC police stations, wanted criminals, average emergency response times, ERs and more
Nearest waste disposal sites and waste collection schedules
Nearest post offices, 24-hour pharmacies, Zipcar locations
Swine flu vaccination locator, parking ticket search, can I park here
Volunteer opportunities
NYC local news including the New York Times, New York Post and WNBC
NYC recreation information including ice-skating rinks, zoos, aquariums and museums

Submitted by Shariq

url: http://www.nycway.com

DIYtraffic Bot

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:53:24 -0500

The DIYtraffic Bot is a Java app that can be set up to create a Twitter bot that tweets alerts for any U.S. city from the Yahoo! Traffic API. The bot can also direct message Twitter users traffic updates for specific streets or highways in response to direct message queries.

Read the announcement on DIYcity for more information and check out the DIYtraffic Bots for San Francisco, Chicago and Portland.

url: http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIYtraffic_-_Instructions_for_Installation

Datamob: traffic

Yahoo! Traffic API

NYC Way

DIYtraffic Bot